

Keep an eye for Weapons Expert as every new weapon will yield you a new ability to use in battle.Abuse overpowered skills like Cloud's Triple Slash and Counterstance to defeat multiple enemies at once or to counterattack stronger foes.Obtain the Level 2 Limit Breaks from Colosseum Challenges (Chapter 9) and equip them as soon as possible through the aforementioned Battle Settings menu.Through the Battle Settings menu, change the quick shortcut for the different party members.Keep the Assess Materia equipped throughout the game and use Assess on all enemies to determine their weaknesses.It's gorgeous, and it's worth it.Īnd now for real, here's a list of tips that might help you beating the game or making things easier: The first and most important thing you'll want to do is play this game once watching all of the cinematics. However, if you are trying to get Dressed to the Nines or Hardened Veteran, you will have to finish the chapter for dress data and hard mode chapter clear data to be counted. Note About Chapter Select: When using chapter select, you can freely jump from one chapter to another and it will retain all of your game progress (battle intel, materia, equipment, stats, etc). Take a look at this last achievement since it rewards a very powerful accessory.Īfter that, only the 18th and last chapter is left, another encounter with Sephiroth and obtain Hardened Veteran. On Chapter 17, a new Shinra VR system will be in Hojo's lab to tackle new challenges and obtain three achievements: That's the Smell, Master of Mimicry and Ultimate Weapon. Just progress through the story chapter by chapter again on hard difficulty, and you will be able to do the remaining two quests from Chapter 9 and obtain the Best in the Business achievement. At any point after obtaining all weapons and abilities, you can go for the 300% stagger achievement ( Staggering Feat). Through chapter select it will be far easier to go back to any missing Music Disc ( Disc Jockey) and missing weapons ( Weapons Expert). If you haven't already, you can hand the last finished quests to Chadley on any Chapter you meet him Intelligence Agent Keep an eye on Dressed to the Nines to avoid a fourth replay of those chapters and you're good to go. Most achievements and collectibles in this guide include the chapter they are obtainable in, so they're easier to navigate through with CTRL + F.Īfter finishing the game for the first time, there will be two things left: a Hard mode playthrough along with replaying Chapters 3, 8, and 9 to obtain the three remaining dresses. So just sit back and enjoy a wonderful dive back into the world of Final Fantasy VII. Other than that, most other achievements will unlock along the way. It's also recommended to work on collecting the Music Discs for the Disc Jokey achievement, and it's also recommended to keep an eye on the requirements for Dressed to the Nines to avoid unnecessary extra playthroughs. Here you will earn the 18 story-related achievements as well as the possibility of earning some chapter-specific achievements:

However, starting on normal difficulty is recommended so the difficulty of the Hard playthrough doesn't ramp up too much by comparison. Hard difficulty will unlock after playing through whatever difficulty you're playing on. For the first stage of the guide, you can play the game on either Classic, Easy, or Normal difficulties.
