Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game - average completion time and 100%

Cheaper than its competitors, Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game has some people worried about its length. Wrongly so. Here's what awaits you in terms of single-player content, and what the 100% will really cost you.

Story Mode: about 4 hours

This is the main course. Story Mode tells an original story built around a collision between timelines, allowing characters from different eras to cross paths. Structured into 4 books and 27 chapters, each one strings together a few fights and cutscenes.

Expect about 4 hours to see it through. That's frankly more than you'd expect from a fighting game at this price. Some fights offer bonus objectives (finishing an opponent with a grab, for example), but they aren't tracked and don't really influence much.

Note

Only one difficulty level, no continue option if you lose, and no real reason to replay once finished. One playthrough is enough to see it all.

Arcade Mode: 20 minutes per character, ~2 hours total

Each character has their own Arcade Mode with a distinct story. The format: 8 matches, 2 rounds each, so 16 fights per run. At a normal pace, one run wraps up in about 20 minutes.

With 12 characters on the roster, going through all of them adds up to about 2 hours of play. The AI can sometimes prove surprisingly tough - better tackle it wide awake, because here too, there's no continue if you lose.

Training Mode and Trials: the time sink

The training mode is fairly comprehensive. It lets you really dig into each character's mechanics. Inside, you'll find the Trials: combo challenges for each character, with difficulty ramping up quickly.

Clearing all the Trials for every character takes several hours - possibly more depending on your skill level. This is where the playtime really balloons if you're the completionist type.

Online Mode: unlimited by definition

Online mode is exactly what you'd expect from a fighting game: you face off against other players, with no time cap. Not much to elaborate on here - you set the limit yourself.

100% and Platinum Trophy: budget plenty of time

If you're aiming for the Platinum, most trophies remain accessible: winning fights with different characters, finishing Story Mode, completing the Arcade. Standard stuff.

But two objectives really drive up the cost:

• 26 hours spent in Training Mode - yes, twenty-six hours.
• Completing all the Trials with every character, which requires genuine mastery of the advanced mechanics.

The Platinum turns a game with 8 to 10 hours of single-player content into a considerably bigger investment. It's up to you to decide if you're up for it.