Looking at running this...since this game is only available digitally in the West, would playing on SSD significantly improve load times? If so, should that be a variable on the boards? Or is it not worth it because of the console's bus speed limits? I've seen it make a difference for a few PS3 games but wasn't sure if any testing had been conducted on this one.

I was wondering the same thing. I wanted to test an SSD but I would need to remove one from a PC so I can't right now. I'll see if I can get one to try it out and test some load times. As far as separating HDD and SSD times I wasn't sure. I didn't really want to separate them, I guess it depends on the overall time difference on a run. A few seconds shouldn't be a huge deal. I'll do my best to try this out soon. It would also be great to have some more runners for Reborn, welcome and I hope to see you submit a run soon!

Apologies for taking so long. I've made a video showing the loading differences for 2 loading screens. One with a 1tb HDD the other with a 220gb SSD.

The time save will definitely add up on runs with multiple loading screens, All Stories category could save over a minute with an SSD. This games player base is small so I don't think a separation is necessary right now. I also don't know if any previous runners used SSDs. I guess for now feel free to use HDD or SDD in your runs, if you can please include in you submission descriptions if you used an HDD or SSD. Thanks.