>>37795835In my experience with souls games every time I complete it, it gets a fraction as long. And this is true of ER too. I was 160, then 80, then 60. Which we can infer that most of the play time is exploration and learning.
What I'm trying to say is don't give up because right now you're hacking a path through the wild. Then when you reach your destination you can look back and admire it, travel and wear it out, go forwards and backwards and own it and make it easy.
