Final Fantasy VII Guides and Walkthroughs
Final Fantasy VII is regarded by many as the best game of all time, I count myself as one of those people. I hold very cherished memories of this game from growing up and playing it again 20 years later I can say that it still held up to its former glory. The story of this game is so compelling and the Materia system keeps you interested and immersed in the battles, even for people who don't like turn based combat.
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Full Walkthrough
This section contains my complete walkthrough for Final Fantasy 7. Almost every missable item in the game is included (only useless ones are left out) and you'll find pictures, text as well as video to assist with some of the more complicated puzzles in the game.
Disc 1 Walkthroughs
1. First Reactor Raid, Sector 8, Sector 7 & Second Reactor Raid
2. Sector 6, Wall Market
3. Train Graveyard & Sector 7
4. Sector 6 & Wall Market (Part 2)
5. Shinra Building
6. Kalm
7. Chocobo Farm
8. Mythril Mine
9. Junon
10. Cargo Ship
11. Costa del Sol
12. Mount Corel
13. Gold Saucer (Part 1)
14. Corel Prison
15. Gongaga
16. Cosmo Canyon
17. Cave of the Gi
18. Nibelheim
19. Shinra Mansion
20. Mount Nibel
21. Rocket Town
22. Gold Saucer (Part 2)
23. Temple of the Ancients
24. Bone Village
25. Forgotten Capital
Disc 2 Walkthroughs
26. Forgotten Capital
27. Icicle Inn
28. The Great Glacier
29. Gaea's Cliff
30. Whirlwind Maze & Junon
31. Mideel
32. Mount Corel
33. Fort Condor & Mideel
34. Underwater Reactor & Key to the Ancients
35. Rocket Town, Cosmo Canyon, Forgotten City & Diamond Weapon
36. Return to Midgar
Disc 3 Walkthroughs
37. The Beginning of the End
38. Northern Crater (Part 1)
39. Northern Crater (Part 2)
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Ultimate Weapon Guides
As with most Final Fantasy games, 7 is no exception in that each character has an Ultimate Weapon. Every Ultimate Weapon in FF7 uses a different damage formula to calculate damage and it has 6 Materia slots, all paired in twos. Most of these weapons are easy to acquire but some are the result of quests. The biggest downside to these weapons is they have no Materia Growth on them.
Continue reading for more information about Ultimate Weapons
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All of the Materia Combinations + The Best Materia Combinatons
I spent hours researching Materia Combinations, reading forum posts and testing different combinations in game to make sure they worked and experimenting with my own combinations. This guide is a culmination of that effort, all I learned from it - what Materias combine with which and what the best combinations I have found are.
Continue reading for more information about the best Materia Combinations
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How to unlock Limit Breaks & Where to find Level 4 Limit Breaks
This guide explains Limit Breaks as a whole in detail. It includes information like how to quickly unlock ranks 1 and 2 of the three Limit Levels as well as where to find the Level 4 Limit Breaks for each character. For anyone unsure of how Limit Breaks work there's no better repository of information about them!
Continue reading for more information about Limit Breaks & how to acquire Level 4 Limit Breaks
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Chocobo Breeding Side Quest
Breeding Chocobos is probably the main side quest of Final Fantasy 7 that everyone will remember. The Chocobos that you breed can be used for racing in the Gold Saucer as well as for other side quests during the game.
Continue reading for more information about the Chocobo Breeding Side Quest
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How to Acquire Master Magic, Command and Summon Materia
In Final Fantasy 7 if you level up all of the Magic, Command or Summon Materia you are able to visit the Huge Materia you collected on Disc 2 in Cosmo Canyon for a Master Materia. A Master Materia will allow you to use the abilities from every Materia used in creating it - while only taking up a single Materia slot.
Continue reading for more information about Master Materia & how to acquire it
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Kalm Traveler and Emerald + Ruby Weapon
Even though Sephiroth is the final boss of Final Fantasy 7, he's not the most difficult boss. In the ocean you can find the Emerald Weapon and in the desert around Gold Saucer you'll find Ruby Weapon. These two enemies are the hardest bosses in the entire game and they're also involved in the Kalm Traveler Side Quest.
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- Continue reading for more information about Emerald Weapon
- Continue reading for more information about Ruby Weapon
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Other Side Quests
As with most Final Fantasy games, there are a ton of different side quests that you can complete throughout the game. This section covers all of the side quests which aren't as important and don't deserve their own full section.
Continue reading for more information about the Ancient Forest Side Quest
Continue reading for more information about the Fort Condor Side Quest
Continue reading for more information about the Gold Saucer & Rewards
Continue reading for more information about Lucrecia's Cave
Continue reading for more information about the Materia Caves (Mime, Knights of the Round & other Materia)
Continue reading for more information about the Sunken Gelnika Dungeon
Continue reading for more information about the Turtle's Paradise Side Quest
Continue reading for more information about the Wutai Side Quest
- Continue reading for more information about the Wutai Pagoda Side Quest
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Unlockable Characters
There are two characters that you can recruit into your party throughout FF7, Yuffie and Vincent. Technically you can go through the whole game without getting either to join your party but they play an important role to Final Fantasy 7's story... In the grand scheme, Vincent gets his own spin off (Dirge of Cerberus) and Yuffie is involved in a few side quests throughout 7 and arguably gets some of the funniest dialogue in the game.
Continue reading to learn how to unlock Yuffie and get her to join your party
Continue reading to learn how to unlock Vincent and get him to join your party
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Enemy Skill Materia Locations & Guide
As with most of the Final Fantasy games there's a way to collect different skills that the enemies use throughout the game. In this game it's called Enemy Skill Materia, there are four of which throughout the game with a total of 24 Enemy Skills to collect.
Continue reading for more information about the Enemy Skill Materia and where to find Enemy Skills
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Best Leveling Locations
This section covers all of the best leveling locations in Final Fantasy 7 sorted by which disc they're on. All of these locations give the best EXP as well as AP that you can find during these discs, which is why they got their own guides.
(Disc 1) Junon - Enemies outside the Underwater Reactor
(Disc 1) Mideel Area - Fight enemies around Mideel prior to Disc 2
(Disc 2) Mideel - This is the best grinding location prior to Northern Crater
(Disc 3) Northern Crater - Magic Pots and Movers for EXP and AP
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Other Guides
Every guide that doesn't deserve its own section but still deserves to be mentioned on the main page is found here. This is basically just my miscellaneous section for FF7, it contains a bunch of useful information but nothing required for game progression.
Continue reading for more information about the Chocobo Sage's House
Continue reading for more information about the Costa del Sol Villa
Continue reading for more information about the Bone Village Side Quest
Continue reading for more information about Cactus Island and Tetra Elemental Farming
Continue reading for more information about Dazer Farming
Continue reading for more information about all of the missable items
Continue reading for more information about farming Sources (In-game items that increase your stats)
Continue reading for more information about how to get Unlimited Gil very early on
Continue reading for more information about the W-Item Glitch & how to perform it