Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning has a lot of content. This much we know. Releasing next week isn’t the most perfect time as far as I’m concerned with the Vita’s launch on the horizon and both Twisted Metal and Resident Evil: Revelations competing for my time, but it’s also a much more comfortable spot than any point in the last quarter of 2011 would have been. One of its developers recently pondered if the amount of content crammed into the game was overdone, and I can’t help but think it just might be.
“We recently had a content completion play through about two months ago… so, QA guys, they’ve been playing the game for years, they know all there is to know about it, its ins and outs, etc… their goal is to play everything,” lead designer Ian Frazier told Strategy Informer. “Do every quest, every dungeon, everything possible, but as fast as possible. That means easy difficulty, skip all cut scenes and dialogue, sprint everywhere that’s sprintable, fast travel everywhere you can, don’t do any combat you don’t need to do… that all took around 200 hours, and that was a speed run.”
