Hour Count: 50
Estimated Remaining Time: 5-10 Hours
All the leveling I did back when I first landed on Gran Pulse has paid off. Boss battles, while still challenging, don't require as much controller spiking as battles like the one against Cid Raines. Also, there's these huge elephant turtle things walking around on Gran Pulse that could kill my entire party in one move back when I was there, and now in Chapter 12 I was forced to fight one and was actually beat it. That, for me, is one of the greatest pleasures of playing an RPG: being able to beat an enemy that seemed previously impossible to beat, and it felt great!
Overall, I'm getting ready to move on. This long, tedious task of playing only one game at a time is worsened when it's a 60 hour RPG. There are a few RPGs like this in my collection, like Kingdom Hearts 2 and Grandia II, that will probably slow me down big time when I get to them. But after FFXIII, I am looking forward to taking down games a little more rapidly, so I will likely move onto a few NES games for a while. Hopefully, with practice, I can beat most of those in about a week.