Trophy thoughts and estimated time to complete?

[Johambubger]

Looks like a pretty fun game. Never played one in this series before but it looks pretty interesting. What are people's thoughts on the trophies, the diffculty and how long it'll take to beat? Hard to gauge without having played it myself.
 

 

[ThirdAwakening]

Mercenaries Wings, Blaze and Rebirth all require three playthroughs, and can be Platted within 30-40 hours. 
 

They all require a playthrough on Hard, and Maniac, which increase the stats of enemies by 30% and 40%. 

 

You can spend more time grinding on Normal / Easy and farm out gear to make you functionally invincible, which will trivialize Hard and Maniac, but Hard is a sizeable challenge just on New Game Plus. 
 

New Game Plus lets you transfer Magical Gear, Skill Points and Gold. If you want a challenge just play through on Normal and do your gold grinding and gear farming on Hard. 
 

I would strongly encourage playing Wings then Blaze then Rebirth, as Blaze is vastly better than Wings and Rebirth is much better than Blaze, it will be difficult going in reverse. 

[DordorTheSwift]

Here are my times from playing very inefficiently:

Normal on duel route - 17h

Hard on seige route - 22h because I didn't do my equipment grinding on normal, like a dummy. Did the EX stages here.

Maniac on talk route - 5h

Total according to the console (so including failed battles) - 53h