how long does it take to save a world

[Ashley Schovitz]

How long do you think it takes on average for a whole journey in FF to be complete and how long do you think each one takes?

I'll only speak of the ones I've played in order

FFIV: I believe that this one takes the longest, the party gets seperated numerous times, and they have to go everywhere by foot, until they get an airship and with those old airships being so big, they're probably slow. I think that FFIV took about 6months to for it to end.

FFVII: I think this one might've been the shortest, let's say we count every time the party enters a town, they spend the night there and 1 night in the field or world map, then FFVII could've taken the party only 3 and a half months to save the world from meteor.

FFVIII: About 3 or 4 months for this one too.

FFIX: 5 months

FFX: This really seemed short I might say only 2 months for their journey, Spira's a small planet.

[f f freak]

Normally about two days. Maybe more. Depends how long I stay up and play it.

[Ashley Schovitz]

maybe you misunderstood the question I'm not talking about how long it takes you to beat the game I'm saying how long does it take the characters to the save the world as if you were living it.

[f f freak]

I was joking. I guess it depends. in FF8 they seem to do it in like 2 months but in FF6 it seems to take like 6 months.

[YTDN]

I was joking. I guess it depends. in FF8 they seem to do it in like 2 months but in FF6 it seems to take like 6 months.

In FF6 they get seperated for a year. I can imagine it would take a month or two to locate all the friends after that.

[No.78]

X was totally less than a month

[Ryushikaze]

FFX: This really seemed short I might say only 2 months for their journey, Spira's a small planet.

Spira, by planetary constraints, must be vaguely earthsized, but yes, they live on a small continent/ large Island.

[Ashley Schovitz]

FFX: This really seemed short I might say only 2 months for their journey, Spira's a small planet.

Spira, by planetary constraints, must be vaguely earthsized, but yes, they live on a small continent/ large Island.

mostly islands Besaid, Kilika, and Bikanel, are all Islands while the rest of the cities are connected on a continent.

[The Crystal]

I think that depends of the size of the worlds. I mean, how we can know for sure, how many days the characters walked from a city, to another in the world map? The FF worlds are much more bigger than what we see during the game, and this is why we cannot know for sure.

[Laddy]

FFVII: 5 weeks
FFIX: Month
FFX: Two Weeks

[Darth Cid]

FFVII: 5 weeks
FFIX: Month
FFX: Two Weeks

ditto

FFIV: 3 months or so
FFV: 3-4 weeks depending on the order in which you aqquire Adamant.

[NINJA_Ryu]

FFTA prolly did take pretty long too, because of the darn "walk to a space and a day goes by" so it would prolly be about a year for that to be completed.

[Ashley Schovitz]

FFVII: 5 weeks
FFIX: Month
FFX: Two Weeks

ditto

FFIV: 3 months or so
FFV: 3-4 weeks depending on the order in which you aqquire Adamant.

But do you think that the cities and countries are that close together? Here on Earth it'll take a person 3 days to reach another city on foot. With IX it should take that much or longer since cities aren't so close together like in our age. We don't have any deserted areas that aren't specific to any city or country, practically wherever you go there's people, until you reach the mountains where it starts to get deserted. I think it would take longer with all the FFs that you listed.

[Sefie1999AD]

Final Fantasy IX started with Dagger's birthday and it ended on (SPOILER)Dagger's birthday, so that must mean the game has taken exactly 1, 2, 3, etc years. I'd like to think the game took a year, but it could have been 2-3 years too since (SPOILER)Dagger's hair has grown quite long again at the end of FFIX. Final Fantasy Tactics took several years. Ramza was 16 when I started the game, and he was 21 when I beat it.

[Captain Maxx Power]

Since many of the worlds of FF don't have noticeable day/night cycles (cutscenes/changes of area don't count), it's hard to pintpoint a single amount of time that has passed on a game. Perhaps the one game that can be measured in a form of time would be FFX. During the game there are many times when time is obviously progressing (the ship to Kilika, half-way across the Mihen-Highroad etc.). However beyond the last part of the game it's possible to cross from one area to another and have the day obviously change quite quickly ((SPOILER)think walking from the calm lands to Zanarkand and back, in our time it would take about three hours, yet an obvious day/night cycle has occured).