Quote Originally Posted by Tavrobel
As for your inquiry about time, it took me 28 hours on Proud Mode to beat the game. It took me another 20 to finish the Jiminy Journal.
I would have beat the game in half that time (which is about 10 hours less than I spent in Standard just TRYING to complete the JJ) only problem being that I couldn't round up Demyx's forms fast enough. Magnet magic never helped . . . eventually I beat him down. I managed to combo him long enough to prevent him from using the form thing again (except the last one which I flashed through by pure luck). When I finally beat him . . . I was far from proud. With so many people spouting off about how easy the game was on Proud Mode, it took all of the fun out of it for me because I felt like a DAMN amateur. I realize that I pretty much am which sucks. Those stupid idiots . . . couldn't they have kept their mouths shut for just a couple of months?

Anyway . . . point being you can spend less time playing through Proud Mode than bothering with Jiminy's Journal . . . especially if you're like me and can't wrap your head around the tactics necessary to beat Sephiroth.