OK. First off, my eyes hurt. I started playing this thing late afternoon Wednesday and I'm freaking hooked on the sides for some reason. So far, I'm 30% done with them, but I'm like, still at the beginning of the game with 20 hrs (Just got off with Aerith/s...w/e). So anyway, because I've been doing the side missions, my Zack is pretty buffed up (DUDE, MATERIA FUSION FTW!!! HP Up+...thats all I'll say)
About that fight sequence, I've had that on my PS3 for months...sadly, I still watch it. But yeah, so far, so good.