I'm on chapter 12 now after 43 hours. I've started rushing to the main quest destination, ignoring absolutely every single piece of other content, and my experience has definitely improved.
I feel bad skipping all that content given that I would usually do it all, but the pacing issues and minigame-to-combat ratio became too atrocious to bare. By the time I first got to the Gold Saucer, I was so burnt out, whenever a mandatory minigame came my way, I immediately clicked "Give Up" or AFKd.
Some of the chapters still feel slow, but it's far better than with the inclusion of the side content.
I was worried my new approach to this game would cause my characters and materia to become under-leveled, but easy mode exists, which I promptly swapped to when I encountered enemies which would resurrect each other. I guess I was supposed to silence these enemies, or kill them at the same time, but I'm missing the silence materia, and killing them at the same time is pain that I didn't want to deal with given the wonky targeting system, which is even more of a pain with mobile enemies that go off screen. Unfortunately easy mode feels way too easy and the combat feels kinda lame now.
I'm not sure how or when this game managed to lose me. I thought Remake was fantastic, but whenever I play Rebirth, I feel impatient and frustrated by it. Perhaps the issues I previously highlighted during my initial 20 or so hours of playtime has compromised my experience.
The environments continue to impress, even if the only thing I ever do in them is activate one single control tower. I'm not yet sure if I'll go back and do some of the side content after finishing the main story. The Chadly open world exploration stuff is trash and I don't want to travel from node to node for the sake of crossing tasks off his checklist, but I'm sure there are a lot of hidden gems somewhere. Fortunately I have the physical version of the game, so I can still sell it when I'm done if I choose to do so.
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