How much time in Rebirth do you think we'll get Vincent and Cid gameplay?

[Golden Ear]

How far into the game do you estimate that we'll get them depending on what you think Rebirth will encompass, how much of the OG we get in it and how far we get?

For example the last character in Remake was Aerith. Remake averaged about 33 hours (*source: how long to beat.com for main story") Looking at play throughs getting up to Aerith can average about 11 Hours into the game give or take or roughly 1/3 into the game.

Using this as reference, how far in will we get Vincent and Cid and do you think we'll have enough of the game to properly explore their combat? Do you think they will do anything (order of events wise) in order to get these characters earlier then we would normally expect them?

Also (using 33 hour main story average as reference) how long do you think Rebirth will be (Main Story)? Will it be more along the lengths of an Xenoblade game, or similar length to Remake (Part 1) or somewhere in between? How much can they develop of a game with super high quality assets and having a huge variety of places/towns and biomes possibly more than most AAA games we've seen come out. How much time would they need to develop all of these assets? Given other recent AAA games like Horizon and GODR took 4.5 - 5 years and being 23-29 hours in length respectively. How many of these assets/locations can they realistically develop in 4 years or under?

 

[Ashen]

That's a lot of questions, haha.... Well, for playable characters, since they already said some of the events order may change, I've though we may get them earlier. How they'd make it work without messing the story too much, I don't know.

As for development, they'll be reusing some stuff from Remake. I once read that making natural backgrounds in 3D wasn't that hard, though I don't know if it's true. At least there won't be anything as complicated as Midgar (maybe upper Junon, but nothing compared).

As for lentgh, I bet in another 30 hours or so long. The original covers the part in much less, and Remake was very, very stretched. It could've been a perfectly fine 10-15 hours game with the new content and without the filler.