This game was my first jrpg as a kid. Well after Mario rpg and Pokémon. But I guess it always classified it different as it was a more serious game.
I was really young so it’s cool to play it now and better understand the story.
But I did not remember the battles being so long. It seems that every encounter so far has been a really long experience.
I just graduated seed training, so not to far into the remake. Im not worried about spoilers as I’ve played through this game when it was new, and watched a speed run of it a few years ago.
I recently played through the original version(non remake) on steam. There was a way to speed up battles / tools to add magic to your characters so you didn’t have to spend all day drawing magic. I would be surprised if the remake didn’t have any of this. (I used to leave chocobo world running when I wasn’t playing)