Hey Sega. I saw an earlier post which talked about boss fights taking long times, and it struck me as something that I'd experienced. Diamond Weapon was the first boss that took long, but bosses such as Hojo or Prod Clod took AGES. It didn't help that if I died on Hojo, I had to fight the other 2 forms, which were never strong enough to kill me but still wasted time.
My party setup was Cid, Yuffie and Cloud, I was at around rank 4, with level 60-70 or so. The fights in that part of the game went from fun and challenging to just slug fests where you just hit the boss over and over and occasionally heal, and there were very little amounts of things that made fights faster. Even with Elemental=Weakness on Cid's weapon with added cut and a mixture of magic and summons on the other two, I had problems taking any fights in less than 20 minutes.