The puzzle pieces have so far been easy to find. I haven't ever had to look. Because it seems pretty formulaic. Find puzzle piece, place on pedestal, new land appears, explore, defeat boss, go back to present, visit same land in present, find puzzle piece in same place boss was, place puzzle piece on pedestal, new land appears . . .

But if they start putting them in strange places, I might just have to use a walkthrough, because I am not all that interested in spending huge amounts of time playing hide-and-seek in a super long game.

I've really enjoyed it so far, though. I like the formula.

But WolfKano, you said 80 hours for just the FIRST disc and the second was even longer?! WTF?! The longest RPG I've ever played was at like 70 hours. That's a bit daunting.

But if a lot of that inflated time is maxing out every single job class for every single character and doing all the casinos and stuff, I guess it will take me significantly less time. I have zero interest in the casinos. I DID play the TnT board or whatever it was called in DQ V and liked those.

I'm starting to wonder if maybe I should just pause DQVII and move on to DQIX when I have the money to buy it. At this rate it might take me a year to finish DQ VII and I'll need to be done with it by January for thew new Zelda anyway. :P