Another problem with it is that it can't be activated by the controller itself. It gets grating because sometimes you just want to sit back and enjoy the game like normal without it looking like it's on drugs. They are the games most glaring flaws and puts it far below the aforementioned games despite its quality in everything else because it's just such a fucking slog to play that constantly makes you ask,'what were they thinking?' They gave us a fast speed mode, but fast speed mode makes the game weird and look like it's always in fast forward mode. When FFIX HD was announced for Steam it was my hope that Square Enix would fix this. It was a slow, plodding slow as molasses game that was, despite my love for it, completely unplayable.

But this made the experience considerably lesser than VII, VIII, X, or XII. The reason? The long load times and horribly slow battle system on top of a above average encounter rate (or at least, it feels that way?) made it impossible to enjoy. Problem? In later replays, despite loving the game, I have found the game utterly unplayable. I played the shit out of it, beating it a mere month after release. It was also the first game I ever got really, really addicted to.

It was the first game I ever saved up for and bought for myself, being a Final Fantasy lover at the time.

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