I tend to think the perfect amount of this game to play is JUST the first story.On Gamepass, and viewed from the perspective of 'just play the first story and treat that as the whole game unless you, personally, are LOVING it', it's actually really strong. You travel around a bit, do some side quests (sure, they're procedural, but just don't do so many that it matters), upgrade your gear, and then finish a relatively ok story with identifiable characters and a plot. You even get enough exp and upgrade points to realise that 99% of the skills are utterly pointless because combat just moves too fast.Then you never bother with story 2. Because it plays almost identically to story 1, as does story 3... and I gave up in story 3 because I was very bored of the formula by that point, so I've no idea if story 4 or 5 would have been worth it. I have a strong belief the answer is "no".But 15 hours on story 1, with some sidequests? A fun little romp.