I am probably about 8 hours into playing this and I feel your review accurately describes my feelings about the game so far. I'm freaking jealous that you were able to speed things up with your emulator. I'm playing it through Nintendo Switch Online and the battles are painfully slow. I'm grateful for the ability to create save points though. Without those I would have dropped this game hours ago. Some enemies and their random attack numbers (especially the extra damage attacks) are just cruelly unfair.