I finished up the first game over the weekend. It is fantastic; the story is completely bonkers yet compelling. The pacing is great if you ignore most of the sidequests, and the last ‘episode’ is basically the open world endgame set 2 weeks before the end of the story so you can sidequest to your heart’s content.
The game took me about 46 and a half hours of mostly bee-lining the story. I did do a few out-of-the-way quests that caught my eye, and I’m real bad about pausing and getting up and walking away so IDK how much of that playtime was AFK.