This game is actually pretty fast paced (battle-wise) for a RPG. Compare this to any other FF game and the fights go pretty quickly and you have to have some quick reflexes not to totally suck at it.

I suppose it can feel slow once you've got the mechanics down in memory. I could run WP in my sleep now but, when I first started running, it was all shrieks and panicking about Stalker-stabz and table flipping over getting too many stacks of rancor.

But, you pop in any rpg game-- It's meant to be slow because it's story and character development based. If you want action, play a action based game like Halo or CoD. Hell, play some Super Mario Bros; that's more action packed than the general rpg game.