What's funny is they probably just leave the voice-acting the same and put in Japanese subtitles. I wish this is what Squarenix would do or at least provide an option for but they refuse to do so despite it 1. being cheaper and 2. probably being better quality. Although FFXII had pretty nice voice acting all told.

Pause, unpause, wait for flash, X. Rinse and repeat X200. :)

Makes it a helluva lot faster and there's one particular spot where the lightning can actually come down faster if you decide NOT to use the pause button. I believe it was around a pole or pond?

I just have to say this about Kimahri: if you're expecting him to be awesome at any one thing, you're using him wrong. Kimahri has the benefit of a buttload of strength to start with, so his beginning primary role should be as an attacker. Use him anytime you'd use Auron, because both generally have Piercing weaponry. Once you get Auron, pull them both out at the same time and you'll make quick work of foes. Also, Kimahri can easily get into Lulu's area, so have him dive into her first-level spells as a backup caster. You can then work him through Wakka for some accuracy and additional strength, plus status stuff, and have him dip directly into her third-level spells.

Kimahri is a generalist character. He's like the party bard, if you will. He's able to support your every effort and can help you do it better depending on where you build him.

Frankly, I use him all the time. He's still a pretty heavy hitter physically, and his Ronso Rages are pretty useful and actually not at all a pain in the ass to get like Blue Magic usually is.

The thing with Khimari though is that his Overdrive designate him as a Blue Mage who has only access to his attacks when in overdrive and that is crazy stupid. He has no other good ability other then Lancet. Quistis was in the same boat, but thanks to the way Limit's worked in FF8, you could exploit that easily so she could use her Blue Magic whenever.

It can be argued that Rikku is the same with her mix, but I always pegged her as a thief first and chemist second and she could use steal whenever.

Rikku would be like that with her Mix, but Mix is so useful that's totally offset. She's also got Use, which lets her use Grenades and Al Bhed Potions and some other neat items. Plus, Steal is good, and she also gets Bribe and Copycat, both of which are also really good. Kimahri, well, Scan is kinda useful, I guess. If you don't want to waste a slot on a weapon for sensor. Other than that, he sucks. Really, you've already got 6 characters, all of whom are good for something. And you can switch them out in battle easily; it doesn't even waste a turn. So you really don't need a Jack of All Trades when you already have a bunch of Masters.

The "repeat times two hundred" is the part I take issue with.

People who have done it say its really not all that bad.

One of my friends did it and says this to me whenever I bring it up and complain.

Your friend is a masochist.
Regardless of the annoyance of 200 times dodging lightning bolts, it starts being frustrating when you're at 199 and THEN you get hit.

I just said "Fuck this, I'll create a similar weapon from scratch eventually."

It's only an hour of redundancy. Nothing too hardcore.

*has collected ALL of the ultimate weapons*

Biggest promotion of false advertisement ever.

Actually I think it's only about 40 minutes, assuming you're not pausing all the time. Least that's what I remember. And it's not hard, just long and tedious and annoying IF you fuck up a good ways into it. Personally I did it on my first attempt without any problems. Kimahris fucking butterfly catching bit was the REAL pain in the arse moment of the Celestials. I had all the others collected without issue, Tidus' first, then Rikkus (should have really gotten a No Encounters weapon first though), then Auron, Wakka, Yuna (that took a while), Lulu, but when it came to Kims it was near impossible for the longest time.

Got there in the end, but it wasn't really worth it. The others were pretty awesome though.