Chapter 7 is pretty long. Some good battles and a great setting. Kind of fizzles out near the end with a too-easy boss, but loved using Odin against tougher match-ups.

Chapter 8 is very trying and kind of obnoxious. Glad it's short. Good ending, but all the running around leading up to it is stupid and pointless. Either give us the meat of the game or make the downtime interesting and not shallow, SE.

Spoiler for Chapter 9: (SPOILER)The "reveal" about Sazh's suicide is awful. I'm hoping it's the last "twist" of this kind in the game.