Hours ticking away

Still trucking through Final Fantasy X.

At time of writing, I am girding my way through Macalania Woods.
The ratio of gameplay to story now stands at 10 hours of gameply out of 18 hours overall.

This is the first time the balance is out of order but in my defence:

• I want to level up Kimahri to have Dispel (because I'll be needing it when I face Evrare).
• Macalania Woods is a really useful place for Leveling up
• This is a game after all and not some movie
• After putting up with so many times the game has taken control out of my hands, I feel I'm entitled to play the game the way I want to play it