The Longest Five Minutes

Let me preface this by saying that the core concept of the game appeals to me, and I don't just mean the idea of going through a JRPG in a disjointed format: The idea of making each flashback essentially its own single-dungeon long min-JRPG to tell the story of a considerably longer JRPG is something that appealed to me. They were clearly trying to focus on the dungeon crawling portion of a JRPG while minimizing the actual *grind* portion. Since you can't carry stuff over, that random loot you pick up in a dungeon is more meaningful: It would be a pain to grind for enough money to get the latest equipment, so that stuff you find in a dungeon, that new tier of armor, is actually relevant. Except their attempt to fend off the grind actually hurt them quite a bit in the design stage. So, you will never need to grind in this game. Not for levels, not for equipment, not for money. Every Flashback starts you off with everything you'll need to clear the stage with a little bit of difficulty ...

Uninspired fetch quests, a gimmicky concept ("ooh, we're playing the game out of order"), braindead battle difficulties, and immature characters. If you want to watch every anime ever made and play every JRPG in existence, you might enjoy this. I am picky and did not.

If you think about it, Memento was a straightforward crime story, don't you think? The whole game happens in the last five minutes of your quest. The longest five minutes in your life. A deliberately nostalgic JRPG reminiscing of old 16 bit games, with one twist. You start the game at the final battle, but you have amnesia. The game is separated into two, the non chronological memory trip where you try to remember how you ended up there, and the fight against the demon king where choices you made in the past and in the present would affect how the fight goes. If you enjoy classic jrpg, you'd definitely enjoy this, but if you dislike old-timey 16 bit jrpg, you could give this a pass, since even with the twist it IS an old-timey 16 bit jrpg. Don't expect an actual old-timey jrpg though. It's short, and barely have any difficulty. You can breeze through most of the game with just auto attack. Think of it as more as a summary of an old jrpg that you never played, a nostalgia for memory...

I don't remember, that I played this game.

This 5 minutes felt like 50 hours... oh wait.. it IS 50 hours.... it's a NIS game afterall, no way it can be short... lol! The Longest Five Minutes is a RPG (Visual Novel?) that does the anti-grind concept in the game but still give you the grinding tools, causing the players to end up in a dilemma. The concept is probably to teach the players (especially MMO players?) how much time we have wasted on useless grinding and how hollow it feels when the game goes reset and all those hard work gone poof. This game is definitely designed on "I dare you to go side track and grind!" type of weird mentality. So, yeah! Don't grind, it's a trap! You can play through the whole game using auto battle and easily finish the game without grinding at all! Stick to the story line! The game play goes in between 2 modes, the RPG mode and the VN (Visual Novel) mode. While we get to control the characters and move around, with rpg turn based battle encounters and all that in the RPG mode, and fully text a...

The Longest Five Minutes starts with a final boss, and then flashes back to many points on the journey since the main character seemingly has sudden amnesia. The characters were alright, if a bit rushed, and I think that this had a lot of potential. While I thought the idea of this game was pretty neat. the execution falls flat on its face. You can autobattle literally every fight in the game except the final boss, and that leads to dragging empty gameplay for 99% of the game. I noticed that a lot of overworld stuff was ripped from early Dragon Quest/Warrior game as well. I can't recommend this game because of its utter lack of gameplay.

This game is one that will stay with me forever. As memories and feelings spinning in my head. To all that search for a great story to remember a quest to recall. This game is for you.

Great game, made 14 hours of fun over the weekend for me. I'm shocked about how little coverage this game has gotten, as I was left with a lingering taste for more content about the game, but there's just a couple reviews and not even a wiki. In defense of The Longest Five Minutes, I wanna say that i get where the negative reviews come from, as i have felt the same, but the cons didn't spoil the experience for me, as I was so invested in the pros, so let me start with them: Pros: ------------------- - Great story, as good as you could expect a short JRPG to have. The characters are all unique and have great development, even those you'd think would get none because they weren't part of the main roster. The story seems straightforward, but it has just enough twists to keep you playing for more. I got invested in the character's fates before I knew it, and just had to see their story to the end. - Great graphics, in the style they are presented. Being used to retro JRPGs, the graphics...

I'm getting a refund for 80% off game, maybe i'll buy it just to keep if it ever has 90% off. It's a flash back pixel art game, every choice you make doesn't matter, no need grinding, just need keep talking to people to understand the whole stories, that's all, it's like a walking novel. Its hard to control with the keyboard and i really do not have time for the slow searching quest, you can just watch Lacry's youtube channel, its around 7 hrs of game-play, almost the same as playing yourself with the perk of no clicking and speed up!! Rating: 30 /100 ~ DIFFICULTY ~ ✅ My 90 year old grandma could play it 🔲 Easy 🔲 Normal 🔲 Hard 🔲 Terrible ~ GRAPHICS ~ // No full screen ✅ Bad/Terrible (pixel quality) 🔲 Meh (windows95 quality) 🔲 Graphics don't matter in this game 🔲 Good 🔲 Beautiful 🔲 Masterpiece ~ MUSIC ~ 🔲 Bad ✅ Not special 🔲 Good 🔲 Beautiful ~ STORY ~ 🔲 I have no idea what I am doing ✅ Almost brainless moving 🔲 It's there for th...

For 4 bucks? Definitely worth it. The game is overshadowed by the outrageous price it was when it came out, but the game is amazing if you ignore it. Story and characters were well done, very interesting plot that was never before seen in any other rpg game. REMEMBER!!!!