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3. Do you like long fights?
Did you have kill the ghost NM in cassiopea? it disappears and heals itself, and the fight is longer than usual. Well, my LS's mates hate it for that reason, they prefer a faster fight like cactuar jack, for example.
I think the reason most people hate Unknown Soldier is because when he disappears you lose your target lock and have to manually re-target him again when he reappears. This becomes very annoying over the course of a single battle.

On-topic: I think that fight sounds fantastic. If anything at least it's more interesting than the standard NM fight of just beat the crap out of it until it goes down.

The team in charge of designing monsters and encounters should take a look at Monster Hunter though. The creatures you take down in Monster Hunter generally make use of every part of their body in one attack or another. For instance most of the wyverns use their tail, claws, teeth in most attacks as well as their entire body for some. Then they have their specific attacks ranging from fireballs and poisonous gas to burrowing or climbing on walls. Point being there's a wide variety of attacks for each of them and they're constantly moving around. Because of that the battle doesn't become stale and boring.