In VIII you can eventually **** anything in a few minutes with the right limit breaks. Still good though I think. The first one I played and pretty much went through it twice.
Finished IX a couple of months ago after not getting around to it years ago, a lot of fun. Perfect game wise you would have to do 'impressing all the nobles', the jump rope challenge and speed run to excalibur 2 though. Could be a lot of grief.
Been having more trouble getting into VII, still about 15-20 hours in after buying off psn at the same time as IX.