Quote Originally Posted by Hambone View Post
Are there any parts/side quests in the game that you simply cannot stand?

I can name quite a few:

The process of getting Doomtrain
The Dollet exam
The D-District Prison
Galbadia Missile Base
Going through the Deling sewers as the "Gateway Team"
The Basketball Court scene at Trabia Garden
Destroying the Propagators
Laguna dreams (However on my 4th and current playthrough, they were not as bad)

Most of these I dislike because they take so long and aren't important to the story.
All of the events that you listed are important to the story except for Doomtrain and the Propagators. The only events that were boring for me were the Shumi Village and the Deling City sewers. If you have Enc-None for the D-District Prison it's much easier.
Quote Originally Posted by boys from the dwarf View Post
what about the monster gauntlet you face while getting to ultima weapon? an extremely difficult battle every two steps, or every 4 or 8 depending on if you have enc-half or none. even so, fighting these hard enemies without runnning away over and over again takes an age. and then you probably get killed by ultima anyway.
Those fights are only hard/take a long time if you have weak junctions. Enc-Half/None won't work because the battles occur at fixed points. I had no troubles at all against the Ruby Dragons. A few physical attacks took them down.