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I'm on disc 3 of Final Fantasy 9 and struggling to keep playing. The insane high rate of encounters is finally wearing me down.
Also playing Skies of Arcadia for the first time.
The was the first Final Fantasy I had to hate-play to finish. Between the encounter rate, 20 second load times to get into said encounters (I hope you're playing a quicker version), and the brutally sluggish pace in combat, I had a really rough time with it.
On the plus side, FF9 got me to finally start looking at JRPGs not made by Square, and I discovered Suikoden II and Valkyrie Profile soon after.
Duckstation seems to load everything fine.
Suikoden 2 is a classic. Square definitely had a giant pile of RPGs for the PSX. Star ocean and Ogre Battle are two other good non Square games.
i think i played it maybe 8 years ago, so i can't remember if it was that high. Keep in mind to have fun when playing games. Often i stuggle to play a game i don't enjoy just to finish it (maybe soulhackers 2 and ff16).
FF9 probably has the highest encounter rate out of the first ten games. I'd say it's even worse than FF1. The battles and the AP/equipment systems are excellent though. Good story too.
When you don't need AP to gain any skills you really notice battles starting every four steps. It takes forever to get anywhere in a dungeon.