This is the greatest JRPG ever created...

This is the greatest JRPG ever created. It is easily 1000+ hours of amazing gameplay coupled with an excellent story and musical score.

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>It is easily 1000+ hours
How is that even possible?

I would agree, but 9 doesn’t have Tifa, which is kind of a deal breaker for me, sorry.

All the time it takes to grind out the best possible gear, all the Chocograph locations, all the cards for the Tetra Master card game, and grind all of your characters to level 99. Plus the Excalibur II speedrun challenge for once you've beat the game.

It's pretty damn good. Possibly the best of the PS1 trilogy, though it's close between 7 and 9

>missable items everywhere
>cryptic conditions needed to get them
Yeah no fag FUCK Final Fantasy "It takes 5 mins to load into a battle" IX

>wait 30 seconds then attack
>wait 30 seconds then attack
>wait 30 seconds, then cast a summon ability that has a 2 minute long animation and win the fight that was just a basic encounter
>walk 20 steps
>random encounter
Yeah. Nah.

The fact that the game requires you to have such an in-depth knowledge of it to do a perfect playthrough is the best part though. Theres so many small sidequests to do as Zidane and it really makes Gaia feel alive.
Also it takes more like 10 seconds to load in. I grinded all my characters from level 40 or so to level 99 by grinding Behemoths in Memoria and it only took about 16 hours.

>1000+
just no

You're not really waiting 30 seconds to attack, plus the animations make it interesting to watch and you're grinding to get EXP.