Finished Chapter 4. I was thinking of doing Chapter 5 too but was getting really tired.

Played through Chapter 3 as well as all the side quests here.

I finally beat it. Sephiroth was insanely tough. Every loss made me hate myself but it made me hate him more so eventually after 4 hours I won.

Played through Chapter 9 up to the Hellhouse boss. I really like the story but they're wasting time with MORE sidequesting and I'm really just not in the mood for it. Ill worry about it later or tomorrow.

Came back later and did the side quests. they turned out to not be that bad. Plus the rest of Chapter 9 made up for it. Chapter was whatever. I suck at this game so the combat is getting more and more frustrating to me as it gets harder. Chapter 11 was the equivelent of where I stopped playing in OG so after this I have no idea what's going to happen.

Played through Chapter 8 as well. Did all the side quests in Sector 5 Slums which was really annoying. This game has amazing story, characters and combat, and plot but the side content is horrible and kills the pace more than any other game I've played.

Played from the start of Chapter 5 all the way through Chapter 7. Based on how it ends it seems like there will be many callbacks to the OG which kind of upsets me because I don't want another Xenoblade 2 situation where they hide very important lore behind having previous knowledge about the series. I trust it won't be a major thing since this Remake is all around alot more newcomer friendly but still it feels annoying. Anyway I adore this game and as long as the remaining two games of the trilogy hold up this level of quality then it just might become one of my favorite games of all time.