I'm doing a mini-speed run of this RPG to earn the Gung-Ho title for Lloyd. I'm just after the part where Lloyd has the 'snow-scene' with one of the other characters. I plan to make videos of the conversations for each character but I left my TV-to-PC adapter at home, so I'll have to make them later this weekend.

I also found all the Devil's Arms and I challenged Abyssion, the hardest boss in the game, at level 35 +/-. The battle was taking forever at my level and I didn't think my items would last so I decided to quit after taking away only a quarter of his HP. Lloyd was doing 1 damage per attack so I had to rely on Genis' Meteor Storm for the damage. But at 400 damage per meteor, and assuming 5 hits (at the most), that's still only 2000 damage. The boss has 120,000 HP and Genis could only cast the spell twice before running out of TP. I also need to save items for Raine, the main healer. Needless to say, continuing the battle would be a waste of time.

Hopefully I'll be able to beat the game with my characters at less than level 45 since I'm almost at the end already. The bosses have definitely been much more fun to fight against since each one takes about 10 minutes. I only earn 1/2 the normal EXP as well so it makes it even more challenging when you skip and run from every normal encounter. I've probably only finished two dozen normal encounters.

I clocked in about 14 hours on this, my fourth playthrough, so I expect to finish in 17 or 18 hours. Actually, assuming I don't need to level up against any bosses, which I haven't needed to so far, then I'll even say 16 hours since the final dungeon is optional and I might just skip it.