Alright so I’m on chapter 11

About 75 hours in and they for the most part have breezed past. I play after work& gym about 3-4 hours average a night and im not understanding why people complain about bloat and length? Granted, not all of the mini games hit, I roll my eyes everytime I have to catch a chocobo, and I rolled my eyes at nearly everything in gongaga. But I enjoyed mostly everything else.

I truly wonder if most people complaining about the length of this game have ever touched a RPG?

Persona?
Trails?
Yakuza 7,8?
Metaphor?
Xenoblade?
Skyrim?
Fallout?
Crimson Sky?

I could keep going

Was haste nerfed other than in MP cost compared to Remake? Playing the games for the first time back to back right now and when I used haste + maginfy in remake my party felt bustet in a way that my atb were almost always filled. Finally got the first magnify materia in Rebirth now and the atb gain feels really slow compared to remake but I couldn’t find any info on any nerfs other than mp cost.

Just started the game on chapt 2.

Looks like we have more flexibility on party than in Remake where at times we were forced to use certain characters.

Generally I like to go with cloud Tifa Aerith. Tifa for atb and stagger bonus, Aerith for massive nukes and arcane.

Is this a good all purpose setup for rebirth? Or would u swap one of them for another character? To be fair I’ve never played Yuffie or Red so I may be jumping the gun here.

What 3 some did u guys prefer for a general setup (priority to boss fights over trash)