Atsushi Inaba of Platinum Games, through her Twitter profile , wanted to reassure all Western fans of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance after they leaked some gameplay statistics showing an overall duration of only 5 and a half hours.

The Executive Director and Producer of the title has thus clarified the situation with a series of posts on the popular social network by 140 characters, in addition to being readily ritwittato from Hideo Kojima himself, although in truth the end result is a papyrus worthy of a press release.

" It seems that someone has posted the results of MGR and that different people (mainly Western) has remained in shock by the time taken, 5 and a half hours. Here's the truth: first of all, the cutscene is not included in the game time. Second: For each chapter you play, is taken into account only the best time ever. Does not take into account your total game time. This means that if attacks a chapter for 10 hours, but in one of these sessions I managed to complete in 10 minutes, eventually will be counted only those 10 minutes. Therefore, please do not schedule on that screen because it does not match the true. As I said, this is not how long you played Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance , but is the result of all your efforts in completing it. We got to create this counting system to evaluate in a balanced manner and good players, and has not changed since the time of Bayonetta. However, let me say that it is really disappointing that people try to use a single screen just to try to throw mud on the game ".

It seems that Inaba both arrived late to understand the reasoning of the gaming masses and all strategies of belief that we are behind. Perhaps you could also avoid specifying that "Western", as in "East" not worse happens (the story of AKB48 might be a good example, although not related to the videogame field); otherwise, the game will last more than 5 hours on screen printed indicted.