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MechaKirby posted...

I got the platinum, but I remember beating the game at around 70 hours, and 100%/ Plat almost 70 hours later, even with prep

Blitzball and filling out the sphere grid took forever.

Blitzball - 6 hours
Other dumb mini games - 4 hours
Capturing monsters - 15 hours
Sphere grid grind to match Dark Aeons - 30 hours
Sphere grid completion for every character 10 hours

Actually fighting the Aeons and Penace - 3 hours at best

I love FFX, but it did not respect your time at all. That's why I don't bother with 100% anymore. FFX-2 is even worse

It's for these reasons (well most of them, I only ever played the original PS2 release) that FFX holds the distinction of being the first RPG that I ever clocked over 100 hours on a single playthrough. Even FF7 with all its minigames, sidequests, and level grinding to beat Emerald and Ruby never pushed me higher than 50 or 60 hrs per playthrough.

Of course those number became positively quaint once I got addicted to Elder Scrolls / Fallout games and started sinking several hundred hours into each playthrough.