These are some really good points, I’ve been thinking about this for a good bit now and I’d like to elaborate on my thoughts a little. When I say that I’d dislike a game more if it were longer, I don’t mean that the existing gameplay wouldn’t hold up that long. I often replay shorter games because I think they do. Instead, I mean if they had stretched their efforts thing and tried to make, say 30 hours of engaging gameplay instead of 10, it would’ve been a less interesting product overall because those 10 hours can be heavily tested and polished. I also just find myself getting burnt out on long games often, because even though I enjoyed Witcher 3 and Kingdom Come Deliverance well enough, I dropped them before the end because, frankly, I was more than ready for it to be over by that point. I’d have a higher opinion of them if they ended a full third of the game earlier, you know? As it is, they just dragged on and on and on, in a desperate attempt to gain as many “hours of content” possible. Funnily enough, that’s how I felt about Persona 5 from the very beginning. I spent all 10 hours that I played wondering when I would get to the good part, and I’d rather just not have to play that and have a shorter game. Similarly, if you are familiar with the game Greedfall, that was a pretty comparable experience, it’s very repetitive quests and forgettable narrative beats with boring characters, but apparently it’s got 40+ hours of gameplay. What I mean to say is, very rarely do I find very long games that have gameplay and narrative strong enough to hook me as much as shorter ones. This does sometimes happen, with games like Baldur’s Gate 3 and Elden Ring being examples for be, but they are the only two examples I can think of right now that aren’t deliberately sandboxes or roguelikes or smth of that nature, which is designed specifically so content can be effectively infinitely generated. As for Hollow Knight, that’s just a matter of me not liking Metroidvanias as a personal preference. A lot of people like exploring, trying to find secrets and get a sense of discovery, but to me it feels like a tedious endeavor of walking back and forth to the different dead ends I’ve hit so far to see if that new upgrade I got just so happens to get me past it now, and generally having no clue what to do next or where to go is the most frustrating experience in a game for me. But that’s just a preference for me, and that’s okay. Hopefully that makes sense! Thank you very much for your insightful comment and I hope that clarifies things.

When I finally find the third weed smoking girlfriend: *Grunkle Stan Voice* Finally, I have them all

most people in the FEU community do not like the avatars for good reason, so they arent going to include them. yeah, i dont like avatars.

@WiiSportsRemote Thats a shame. Guess thats where people disillusioned with the franchise go.