Quote Originally Posted by fat_moogle View Post
I started Final Fantasy VII again a couple of days ago and if you don't change the battle speed then that is excruciatingly slow. Wait wait wait wait wait wait attack wait wait wait wait wait wait attack. If anything this new battle system takes things up a notch and gives you the option (I say option because of "Classic" mode) to consistently be involved. Sure, battles might last longer, but with a game presenting cinematics like this would you want to face a boss and think "is that it"?
Play FFIV and then jump into VII and tell me how the speed feels.

As for lengthy boss battles, I'm a DarkSouls/Bloodborne guy and those boss fights end within three to five minutes while still being cinematic and memorable. The fights I've seen so far in VIIR just seem to be damaged sponges that drag out the fight needlessly without offering much of anything else but spectacle. They could at least look challenging.