I love RPGs, they are probably my favorite type of game, but all the ones I've ever played have the same basic problem: towards the end of the game the villians you face are either murderously hard or way too easy. So when you are trying to level up you either die after two turns, or you are in for hour after hour of mindnumbing fights against annoying little monsters that you can kill instantly and don't provide a lot of Ex Points.

Well, that's the point I'm at now. I tried to go into the crater for a better challenge and pretty much the only one who survived the experience was Vincent (and that wasn't because of a whole bunch of work to save him, it was dumb luck). So it's back to either Mideel or the Crashed Gelnika to face the relatively hard monsters compared to all the other areas, but still ones I can kill after two or three turns, and it's gettin' reeeeal dull.

I managed to toast the Diamond WEAPON, but facing Ruby and Emerald will just end up being a repeat of Black Dragon incident. So I've been doing all the other little side quests to get all the materia and best weapons. And guess who now has Omnislash...

Everyone on my team now has their ultimate Limit Breaks, except Cid, so I've been forced to have him in my party. I don't hate him so much anymore, provided he's not allowed to speak. But it's very hard to have his Limit fill since the only monsters that can do it anymore are the ones that can kill him instantly. I'm close to the end now, so I don't want to give up yet, but it's getting really hard to keep my attention. Especially since in 9 days Kingdom Hearts 358/2 comes out. Between Vinny awesomeness and Axel awesomeness it will be hard to chose.