Kamiya and Inaba on length of The Wonderful 101

It started with Platinum Games' Hideki Kamiya tweeting:

"If you hate to finish a game the next day [after] you buy it, you better not play TW101"

He continued with: "I focus on how it is fun, not how long it lasts till the ending."

The reactions from followers caught the attention of Atsushi Inaba who also took to Twitter for a long series of tweets:

"What he is saying is his basic approach to how he creates an action game.

The idea is rooted in that you shouldn't pad your game with content users won't enjoy in order to control play time to the end of the game.

It isn't something he wants to do, or thinks you should do.

BTW, if you didn't know @PG_Kamiya is the kind of game director who will pack as much content into the game as he can until he is satisfied.

If we were to give in to all of his desires, the game we'd ship would probably be some super-long action game that no one would beat.

I've been teamed up with @PG_Kamiya as his producer for a long time now, and game length is something I've never once worried about.

That means both the length of a single play-through and the replayability of the game. Never worried once. Never.

Actually, my job really is to be the one who says "This is too %^&* long! Cut it!"

Of course, even though @pg_kamiya didn't intend for people to jump to their own conclusions, they did.

In this case, that conclusion was "So TW101 is going to be short then?!"

Let me make my own conclusion: TW101 will be so much fun you are going to wear out your Wii U GamePad.

You will have plenty of fun playing it for the first time, and just as much fun playing it over and over again.

Actually, the Wii U GamePad is pretty sturdy, so you probably won't wear it out..."

Remains to be seen if you'll wear out your GamePad or not, but it does seem The Wonderful 101 won't be packing any filler material just to make it last longer.