I can tell you that the length isn't artificially increased, in fact I'm stunned at the pace of the game. It is constantly moving you forward and progressing the story. It is just more fleshed out. More time is given to certain moments and things like bombing the reactors feel fairly significant both in terms of scale but also length of carrying out the plan. In the 8-9 hours I've played I've only really had 2 boss fights (plus two other really cool 'mini boss' encounters) and they are really good boss fights. They aren't just giant health bars, the pace of the battle and battle system makes t