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Bob's Final Fantasy VII Playthrough
Topic Started: May 19 2012, 06:53 PM (1,239 Views)
Aurora
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You're near the end of the game now, all thats left in the story in the Northern Crater is a lengthy dungeon and a series of bosses. Once you go into the northern crater you can come back out but the only way to do this is backtracking, there is a point of no return deep in it but you're warned in advance of this.

The random monsters in there are very tough, lots of status effects, heavy hitters and some with some very weird effects.
Some in particular to watch out for are mainstays of the FF series

Posted Image (Tonberry)
Posted Image (Marlboro)
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If you see any of those especially take them very seriously.

The crater itself is quite long and draining with all the encounters and travel, be well prepared before you go in. Stock up in shops if you need to, advance limits, level up materia or whatever you wish. Check your items and make sure you've used all your sources (speed source, power source etc)
The layout of the northern crater is a bit complicated and while it can be cheesed to get by with one party it'd be a good idea to gear up a B and C team with materia you aren't otherwise using. (Make sure theres restore materia in each) They don't have to be super but checking the basics that they have legitimate gear equipped and some worthwhile materia would help a lot.

Some things to consider doing before entering the crater (outside of the most time consuming stuff)


  • Defeat Ultima Weapon. Its the weapon you fought in mideel when Cid was leader, its flying around in the sky somewhere and you can bump into it with your airship. Keep bumping it until it starts attacking a city and engage it in a fight. You need to do this a few times before you can defeat it, it drops Cloud's ultimate weapon "Ultima weapon" (the most powerful weapon in the game)
  • Go back to the archaelogy place and dig again, you can find the key to midgar here and enter midgar again by foot. The major thing you can get from this is Tifa's ultimate weapon "Premium Heart" from that computer that used to fire bullets at you in the wall market slum.
  • Go back to bugenhagen in cosmo canyon for Red XIII's ultimate weapon "Limited Moon"
  • Fight a gauntlet in Wutai using only Yuffie to get her level 4 limit break.
  • Talk to the man in the centre Rocket Town looking at the rocket for Cid's ultimate weapon "Venus Gospel"
  • There's a waterfall near Corel, you can only get to it by using the Submarine submerged and then emerging in the pool. There's a hidden cave here where you'll learn a lot about Vincent's past as well as his ultimate weapon "Death Penalty" and his level 4 limit.
  • Return to the basement of the nibelheim mansion to learn about what happened to Zack, and essentially the plot for Crisis Core.


All of those are pretty fun side quests that don't take a long time to do and have a lot of good rewards. The major time sinks that I didn't mention are breeding a gold chocobo, battle square grinding, getting the master materia, ruby weapon, emerald weapon and the ancient forest.
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Could have a dabble at Battle Square aswell if you want a little time sink. Pretty good challenge with great rewards.
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