Took me 9.9 hours to clear it on normal. Everything is great fun up until the last mission, which is an hour-long slog through a gauntlet of foes. I cannot stress enough how emotionally harrowing this gauntlet is:
-only your combat stats will matter. don't bring a deck, don't bring a shaman (for anything other than utility casting), don't hope to benefit from your etiquette dips, don't expect anything but fight after fight after fight.
-roughly two-thirds of the enemies you'll face will revive! into ghostly forms that need to be put down in a single round. fail that, and those ghosts will revive, in turn, into the original enemies, back up to 40 hp. this cycle can repeat endlessly.
-those ghostly foes also have 40 hp. they take damage 15 hp at a time, from a "weapon" that can hurt these things.
-remember that bit about combat stats mattering? this weapon is a special weapon. it cannot crit. it cannot become more accurate than 80%--it cannot scale with any of your combat stats. you're looking at a 60-80% chance to hit depending on how far you are. also, it's only got two shots.
-those enemies need three shots to go down.
-you do have two or three guns (if you pay for the third) split amongst your party, sure, but a lot of your action points will still get tied up in reloading, repositioning, and missing
-oh my god is the last mission a slog
-you're probably best off playing up until you realize you're heading into/playing the last mission, and then looking up the ending
-seriously though, everything up until that point is pretty fun.
I recommend this game if you can stomach skipping the last mission, playing the last mission despite its cruelty, or enjoy building character concepts in a fairly flexible system and taking them partway through a game before restarting to try a new build
I make the assumption that most people fit at least one of the above criteria, so I recommend the game overall, but you really shouldn't go into the final chapter with anything but the most miserable of expectations.

Took me 9.9 hours to clear it on normal. Everything is great fun up until the last mission, which is an hour-long slog through a gauntlet of foes. I cannot stress enough how emotionally harrowing this gauntlet is: -only your combat stats will matter. don't bring a deck, don't bring a shaman (for anything other than utility casting), don't hope to benefit from your etiquette dips, don't expect anything but fight after fight after fight. -roughly two-thirds of the enemies you'll face will revive! into ghostly forms that need to be put down in a single round. fail that, and those ghosts will revive, in turn, into the original enemies, back up to 40 hp. this cycle can repeat endlessly. -those ghostly foes also have 40 hp. they take damage 15 hp at a time, from a "weapon" that can hurt these things. -remember that bit about combat stats mattering? this weapon is a special weapon. it cannot crit. it cannot become more accurate than 80%--it cannot scale with any of your combat stats. you're looking at a 60-80% chance to hit depending on how far you are. also, it's only got two shots. -those enemies need three shots to go down. -you do have two or three guns (if you pay for the third) split amongst your party, sure, but a lot of your action points will still get tied up in reloading, repositioning, and missing -oh my god is the last mission a slog -you're probably best off playing up until you realize you're heading into/playing the last mission, and then looking up the ending -seriously though, everything up until that point is pretty fun. I recommend this game if you can stomach skipping the last mission, playing the last mission despite its cruelty, or enjoy building character concepts in a fairly flexible system and taking them partway through a game before restarting to try a new build I make the assumption that most people fit at least one of the above criteria, so I recommend the game overall, but you really shouldn't go into the final chapter with anything but the most miserable of expectations.