FF13 weekend?

So just before the habs game, i thought i'd continue playing FF13.
I have about 7 hours-in and a lot of ppl told me that it gets fun IF you keep playing.
And I'm not the type of person to judge a game without fully playing it, so yeah I'm giving it another try.

But I can say that so far, it has been very long. I mean... I do appreciate humour in a game, and fun lil comments at time. But do you REALLY need an ingame cut scene when you push a button with a character that says: 'Oh hey I think this will clear our way' every 5minutes? NO. I can understand that you want to introduce something new of create a 'wow' moment or create a certain feeling, you would want a cut scene. But there are so far way too many in FF13, YES I know Lighthning is sad and emo and Vanille annoying and Hope a sad lost lil puppy, so I don't need my gameplay to be interrupted each 5 minutes for that.

And just a few minute, I was in controle of the character 'Hope' and he just jumped on this mech-looking machine~! I thought OMG this is so cool, I almost feel nostalgic of the Magitek armor! .....
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It lasted not even 2 minutes, all I did was smash a few guys on da face and then the cool mech broke. See, instead of emphasis of emo-ness of the crew, I would have prefer more cool moments like that, to cut the pacing of the forever very long linear corridors.

Hey don't get me wrong, I'm a Final Fantasy fan since the very 1st one~!
But I'm maybe missing where the Fantasy is in this one?
I'll keep playing while i feed my plants in my zen garden...