I played 100 hours of P3, true, but I enjoyed every minute of it and didn't have to go through 30 hours of exposition to unlock all of the game's features
My complaint wasn't about not playing for three months. My complaint is the game is reliant on shards. You can't press forward WITHOUT shards. So if you haven't played in a few months, you end up having to go through every single dungeon, both in the past and the present looking for a single shard. It is tedium incarnate.
I like a lot of the stories in DQ7, especially because a lot of them feel like an extension on what Horii did while working on Chrono Trigger, but jesus fuck, why is it 120 hours?
DQ7 is one of the most bloated, unevenly paced games I've ever played. It makes FF13 look like a mere car accident rather than a train wreck.