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Quote Originally Posted by Scarmiglione View Post
The only thing I didn't like about this game is that the battle system is sluggish, even at max speed. VII and VIII's battles were much quicker.
That's largely because they had much smaller parties than any other game in the series, both yours and the enemies'. I never met more than five monsters in a single battle, except the pincer attack from six frogs, and that's hardly significant. That's my theory anyway.
Actually it's because the battle animations for non-summon magic and abilities are longer than they need to be. Just doing a simple ice is IX or VIII is over-extended. With enemies constantly using abilities, it's not uncommon to wait a full minute (or more) before a character actually executes the command you entered.