and if you played most final fantasy games , you would know 32 hours is about the norm for the main story , yes they are other final fantasy way longer , butI 17 . 5 hoursII 25 . 5 hoursIII 31 . 5 hoursIV 32 hoursV 34 hoursVI 35 hoursVII 38 . 5 hoursVIII 42 . 5 hoursIX 42 . 5 X 49 hoursXII 57 . 5 hoursXIII 49 . 5 hoursXIII 2 26 . 5 hoursLR XIII 35 . 5 hours . So yeah as you can mostly tell most of them are in the same range as XV , so i don ' t see the major issue personally , anyone can just rush the story and call it short . all games are like this , even fall out 4 you could deem Short and finish it fast , if you skip all the exploring , collecting , secrets , Easter eggs , side quests , if the game was just a story it would be short and you ' d never pick it up again . if the main story was all there was .