Just kill me now

[Elpizo]

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.

(SPOILER)It was funny, I admit, but I've always hated Victoria so that detracted from the fun for me somewhat. x) Victoria is easily my most despised amongst the villainous asterisk holders.

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.

I feel much the same, now that I've played through a big chunk of chapter 7. After the massive slogfest that was chapter 6, it feels good to be drawn back in the game. I'm glad it wasn't more of chapter 6, as I feared. >.<

[metagloria]

I'm currently just mastering all my jobs. Characters lvl 75 + Obliterate + Running around just in front of Florem + Growth Egg = 999 job exp in 5 seconds. .

Yessssss. Best thing ever.

[Del Murder]

Chapter 7 is fun but it lost all it's luster for me after Chapters 5-6. This was really one of the stupidest game design decisions ever and it did ruin an otherwise excellent game.

Do what I did and play another game in between these chapters so you don't get done in by the tedium.

[Elpizo]

I played the entirety of "A Link Between Worlds" and "Ocarina of Time 3D" between chapter 5 and 6... We're talking about months here. Chapter 7 was much better than I had feared and restored my faith in the game and chapter 8 isn't too bad so far (I'm about halfway). The team-up battles in chapter 8 are very challenging, I give it that.