Fair enough Wolf. I haven't played it since it came out which was what? About eight years ago? Never could bring myself to touch it again after I completed it, largely because I'm a lot less forgiving of ridiculously long cut scenes now than I was then. I do remember finding combat to be not that difficult, and really slow though. I can't for the life of me say why, though I have the vague feeling that a lot of battles dragged on longer than I felt was necessary. Perhaps I'm just remembering some of the worse boss battles or something though.

And I'll fully admit that I rarely find games in general to be legitimately difficult, and there are maybe a handful of RPG's I'd say could be described as such without being difficult just because they were grind heavy or had sudden spikes in enemy power levels. So me finding Xenosaga pretty easy wouldn't really be a surprise. I think it was mainly the overall pace of the game that turned me off of the experience as a whole.