https://www.rpgsite.net/news/18129-trails-in-the-sky-1st-chapter-80-hours-long-to-complete-twice-of-original-kondo-interview
>Gamer: Thinking about it, Trails of the Sky FC was quite compact in volume, wasn't it?
>Kondo: I feel like the play time for the original version would be a bit under 40 hours, but when we had a programmer meeting, the main programmer said that it took them 80 hours until they cleared Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter. This included a considerable amount of exploration-related content across the map which could have been one of the reasons [for the longer runtime].
>There are a lot of elements related to exploration [here] compared to the past entries. If you do all of that, properly listen to the voices during events, and do the quests it'll take twice as long as the original. The time spent to watch the events may be a lot indeed here. In the past we would just scroll [the stories] based on the actually shown speed; that's one of the reasons the original was so snappy. I also began playing it (Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter) for supervision, but I couldn't really finish as it got extended to over a week.
>Gamer: By the way, is there no issue to confirm that all the content covered in Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter is the same as The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky FC?
>Kondo: We are basically covering Trails in the Sky FC while adding some more elements to the finer details.