Damn, I almost thought you already beat it XD
It took me over 40 hours to beat this mess of a game, its honestly the worst mainline FF game I've played, still pretty good, but way too convoluted, the story takes way to long to get interesting and the characters take too long to become likable.
Seriously by the end of Disc 1 Squall is still a dick.
As Rol said, jump to FFIX, that one is pure gaming bliss.