Quote Originally Posted by Elpizo View Post
On this I agree with you, Skyblade. It is rather refreshing to play an RPG again that's actually challenging and where finding the right setup of abilities, support abilities and equipment can really mean the difference between victory or defeat. It's a lot of fun. (Would be more fun if the game didn't rehash the same content for 4 chapters, but eh, can't have everything.)
Spoiler for people who haven't beat Chapter 7 yet. If you didn't enjoy the Eternian Board of Girl Power, there is something wrong with you.

Past Chapter 6, it's not really the same content. Putting the bosses into groups makes the battles play out very differently from the original fights. Techniques that were used to stop a single boss aren't much good when they have friends. It makes you rethink your entire setup and strategies. And the story for the encounters also radically shifts. Those changes make it well worth the extra time, in my mind. It's Chapter 6, where you're doing the exact same fights with (almost) the exact same story that really brought down my interest.

In the original version, these chapters were all DLC that essentially were exactly the same. The For the Sequel remake of the game changed them up a little, and the Western release version actually changes them further still.