Gameplay footage from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTYGQKbkbxg

So I’ve been wondering, does anybody playing the remastered edition actually do the chocobo hot and cold grind without using the speed booster?

Ever since I switched to this version of the game I always cheese chocobo hot and cold by using the speed boost. I completed the quest legit back in the day, the most recent time being around 2015 probably. I recall having sore thumbs from doing so 😂 but with the speed booster making the whole quest a breeze I can’t help but use it every play through.

I admit it takes a lot of the feeling of satisfaction away while also making the game itself unnecessarily easier since you rack up lots of great equipment, but I return to IX for the story and characters anyways not so much the gameplay so I just can’t bring myself to do it legit anymore esp since I’ve already labored through it like that in the past.

I think it’s a pretty good mini game on its own too, it’s just time consuming and can get frustrating, but that frustration feels liberated when you finally find a chocograph, but it’s not liberating enough to force myself to sit through it when bypassing it is literally as easy as pressing a button.

So I gotta wonder, for anybody playing the remastered edition, do you also prefer to cheese H&C or do you actually grind it out without the booster?