Very, very slow. Major kudos to whoever has the patience to beat this game without using emulator fast-forward functions. Additionally, as others having pointed out and despite its age, there are dozens on dozens of questionable game design decisions, such as the manner in which you're supposed to level up your healers, Marth being the only character able to interact with villagers, the inventory system and so on, and so on. Very hard to go back to, in my opinion.