The trials are a huge brain****. I used to dread them when they came up. Puzzles are all good in RPGs, but those were just unnecessarily difficult and long.

Keeping in mind I was about ten or eleven years old when I played it, it might not be so bad now. Not that I have the desire to play that game again for a while to find out - I'd rather play FFI over and over again while having my gums scraped with a nail file. Not really.