That’s just the truth. For a game that consists mostly of battling, the battles are always slow, with the most static environments, requiring almost zero thought or skill from the average player. The core game mechanics are simply not mentally stimulating enough to respect the developer’s wishes and play it at normal speed “as intended” on original hardware, as opposed to on an emulator with 3x-4x speed on half the time. By comparison, better JRPGs like Final Fantasy or Golden Sun understand that turn-based combat is inherently boring, and needs things like dynamic camera angles or ATB mechanics to keep the player awake.