Hades EX is a bit... underwhelming mechanically (spoilers obviously)

[Satarn]

And all those transitions and cutscenes and extra time doing pointless things do nothing except make farming later a pain in the butt (looking at you Byakko)

The most messed up thing about this is that I remember Yoshi P saying in some interview that they took feedback from Byakko and will try to avoid long downtime transitions in the future... and then we got Eden Prime and Hades = - =.
Idc that Eden thing is a reference to the long-ass summon cutscene in FF8, they could make savage version a "reference" to how FF9 inroduced shorter versions for repeated casts and cut that shit.

[Crushnight]

This is how i view the fight mechanically, Watered down ultimate,
-Dps checks gating different parts of the fights
-Occasional barrage of mechanics
-Simple mechanically end phase
-new reskin at end of previous boss.

Now this isn't necessarily bad but when compared to previous X.1 trials it is underwhelming except Shinyru last phase where they are on par but it is a step up from Titania and Innocence so i'm content, they have made it clear nothing would reach Thordan ex levels of difficult on release again for extreme trials so I don't expect too much anymore.

[Rasikko]

Let's have all content where there is mechanics within mechanics so that it isn't possible to deal damage anymore. All we can do is try not to die.

[Valic]

The most messed up thing about this is that I remember Yoshi P saying in some interview that they took feedback from Byakko and will try to avoid long downtime transitions in the future... and then we got Eden Prime and Hades = - =.
Idc that Eden thing is a reference to the long-ass summon cutscene in FF8, they could make savage version a "reference" to how FF9 inroduced shorter versions for repeated casts and cut that shit.

To be fair, the Eden one I welcome because it's definitely pleasing for an FF8 fan like myself, and it serves a good purpose of refreshing cooldowns. Whereas Hades... doesn't give much of that in the right spots. At that point, it's down time because down time.... no real benefit to waiting these short odd timed periods.