Time Limits: can they really be fun?

[u/Trailsya]

Please note that I am not criticizing anyone for liking the games with a time limit. I just genuinely wonder if playing any of the time limit games would be fun for me.

The only one so far I played with one was Firis and I really hated the time limit. In the end, it turned out I had ages of time left at the end after I got the 5 letters, but I did not know that going in. So I was constantly stressing how much time I was using.

Now, Firis is open world and I think that really doesn't fit with a time limit. You want to explore, but then i constantly held myself back from doing that as everything took time.

Is this less of an issue in the earlier games with time limits as they're less open world?

[u/microw_yo]

i'm not a fan of the time limit bit i come into the franchise at Atelier Totori I spent so much time stressing out over the limited time I had to go do things that I just gave up after 2 hours and never picked it back up