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Walkthrough

This game was a lot of fun, but the guides I read required grinding for hours or lots of skill.

You can follow this guide and beat the game in about 2.5 hrs.

If you want to get all the achievements it’s a good idea to make a new save for each chapter.

General info

The game is very linear, just kill the enemies along the way and follow the objective indicator.
You can click on the left stick to sprint.
You can run from battles you don’t want to fight by going to an edge of the area.
Saves heal your health when you walk over them.
When not in combat you can open your menu and buy supplies from the shop.
Potions heal health, ethers heal magic, soma heals SP points, remedy curies ailments.
Other shops can be opened as you progress very far in missions
Yellow materia uses SP, green materia uses magic.
You can use items both in and out of battle.
You will use a ton of items in this game, so don’t be afraid to use and buy them.
Item chests are generally not important so don’t stress about finding them all.
Running to the side of hallway may prevent some battles, there are random battles.
If you die you don’t lose items, it reloads the save, teleports you to the fight and you can retry without penalty.

Chapter 0

The game does a good job of explaining the battle mechanics, pay attention.
All talking and cutscenes can be skipped by pressing start.
You have high level magic they take away when you finish this chapter
Behemoth Fight: Use A to dodge to the back legs, spam attack until dead

Chapter 1

Answer “I read it all”
Go to the save
Do the first training mission 1-1-1, spam X
Get the item from the box.
Talk to the box 20 times to get the cursed ring and equip it

The cursed ring delays level ups, but gives you a large stat boost.

Talk to Angeal (buster sword guy) -> “I’m all set”
Run to the gate
Kill the enemies, use blizzard on the enemies on wall
Kill more enemies and proceed following indicators, you want to kill 11-13 enemies for a bulletproof vest reward
Go inside the building to fight your first boss
Boss: kill one first, then the other, dodge behind, and spam attack
Make sure to deal enough damage when the boss displays Ability Points or you will take a lot of damage in a charged hit.
Buy a couple ethers and potions and equip blizzard (if unequipped) before the next boss
Answer “I’m coming Angeal”
Boss: dodge, spam blizzard
Don’t do mission 8-1-1

Chapter 2

Grab thunder from box 6
Go into the briefing room door to go outside, explore, then head back inside
Talk to the potion lady at the entrance to get a second life if you die, must be renewed each time by talking to her
Take elevator up stairs to materia room and talk to scientist to get 8-2-1
Do 8-2-1 to 8-2-6, on 8-2-6 grab fira from chest and use it on boss
Talk to the scientist in materia room to get materia
Equip, fira, blizzard, thunder, blizzard blade
Go to briefing room and talk to guy
All Ready, continue
Folllow indicators
boss: spam thunder, attack from behind
Run from hell gunner
Go into furthest house
Fight: thunder on hell gunner, spam attack
Hit save before going into village house

Chapter 2 Grind

At this point you are barely strong enough to beat the next boss.

While entirely optional I recommend taking a quick detour to grab some levels and make some money.

Do mission 6-1-1, spam attack
Do mission 6-1-2, use fira on green birds, spam attack
Do mission 6-1-3, fira on green birds
Do mission 6-1-4, blizzard on worms and bomb
Buy ethers and potions as needed
Start mission 6-1-5, run forward and right, grab fira, attack tonberry, maintain distance, spam gravity, hit from behind, this unlocks 10-2-1
Finish 6-1-5, spam blizzard, fira grass, spam attack
Do 10-2-1, equip fira, jump, gravity, and assault twister, use gravity
Do 10-2-2, same but 4 tonberrys have at least 6 ethers
Start mission 10-2-3, turn around and make your way to the long corridor at the right of map
Run around until you find a magic pot, use the materia it says in order, this unlocks the Item Mugger DMW
Trade curse ring for bronze bangle
Run from battles until you get two tonberries in the corridor, the first or second DMV will be Item Mugger
You want either a 3 or 5 Gold Pins, forfeit and retry until you do (1/10 chance or so)
Wait for more Item Muggers
When Zach is level 10 and you are tired of grinding, kill the tonberry, and finish the mission to save your experience

Optional

Do mission 6-1-6, use fira
Do mission 6-3-1, poison dual horn, fira scarabs, run around and attack back
Do mission 6-3-2, use gravity, run from one side to the other, finish with fira, tough battle, you can poison and run in circles too
Do mission 6-3-3, attack bombs once and run away, use gravity, finish with fira, another tough battle but easier imo
Do mission 6-3-4, attack bombs once and run away, use fira to finish hornets
Pickup crystal gloves from chest on 6-3-4 (Makes attacks much stronger)
Do mission 6-3-5, get flame armlet in chest before boss and equip, fira hornets, use gravity, maintain distance
Skip 6-3-6 for now, it is way too tough

Chapter 2 Bahamut

Equip blizzard, hp up, gravity, assault twister, curse ring/crystal gloves(6-3-4), bulletproof vest
Go in the house and fight bahamut
Hold block when he flies into the ground, use blizzard when he goes far away, spam attack from behind, use limit breaks

Chapter 3

Go to briefing room and get star pendant from box 6
Talk to soldier in room to get 7-1-1
Go to directors office, we can equip 6 materia now and have materia fusion
Fuse assault twister with blizzard blade to make blizzara blade
Fuse fire with blizzara blade to make thundara blade
Take elevator to entrance and talk to potion lady
Equip jump, fira, gravity, hp up, thundara blade, assault twister
Do 7-1-x, use thundara blade, buy soma, equip curse ring, equip power wrist when you get it
Unequip curse ring for diamond bangle so we can level again on 7-1-5
On 7-1-6 use fira from a distance
Fuse thunder blade and fira to make blizzara blade, equip
Go to soldier directors office
Go down elevator all the way
Fight: Spam thundara blade
Go to loveless
For G Eraser, spam jump, power attack works well too from behind
New shop opened
Go down first ladder, and down again
Twist reactor handle, go back to top, run around, go down, talk to sepiroth
Chase scientist, grab jump from chest
boss: thundara blade, blizzara blade, and attack

Chapter 4

Do 7-2-1, use thundara and attack, bring soma, we can fuse items now and get op
Buy 14 Star Pendants, 5 libra, max potions, max soma
Fuse Gravity + Libra + Star pendant if needed to make graviga
Fuse Assault Twister+Cure+ 1/2 Star Pendants to make High Jump
Do 7-2-2, thundara, fira, high jump, or attack from behind
Do 3-1-3, thundara, gives ap up materia
Do 8-1-3, high jump, gives hp up materia
Fuse HP UP with Libra and 4 star pendants to make HP Up++
Fuse AP UP with Libra and 4 star pendants to make AP Up++
Fuse HP UP++ with Libra and 80 potions to make +50%
Fuse AP UP++ with Libra and 80 soma to make +100%
Fuse Fire with HP Up and 80 soma to make barrier +hp 60%
Equip High Jump, Graviga, AP++, HP++, Blizzara Blade, Barrier, power wrist, shinra alpha, diamond gloves

High Jump will carry you for the rest of the game and will be used on most bosses

Leave church, go through gate
Go inside, talk to orange indicators
Go outside, fight worms through hole in wall
Talk to orange indicators
Go inside gate and to shinra building through slums tunnel
Equip thundara blade over blizzara
Fight 1: spam attack
Fight 2: spam attack
Fight 3: spam attack
Fight 4: graviga, spam attack
talk to hojo, tell him you’re ready
boss: spam high jump

Chapter 5

Entrance, outside, follow indicators to church
Run through snow to entrance of facility
Confirm tactics and infiltrate, if you fail, reload from autosave, dispel adds a ton of ap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvzhQWqmSsQ

Go to first highlighted area behind wall, crouch, grab chest on left, back to first area, back corner item, turn around, crouch, run to front left grab item, run left grab item, run left grab item, run in
Fuse dispel with steal and 90 soma, equip over graviga
Fuse blizzard with thundara blade and 2 star pendants to make firaga blade
Run right, up elevator
boss: spam high jump
go into house, take left, skip items
fight: spam high jump
boss: cast dispel and barrier, spam firaga blade on rear

Chapter 6

Fight: spam attack
Fight(s): spam high jump, charge with X+A
Boss: spam high jump, charge with X+A
Fight(s): spam high jump, charge with X+A
Boss: spam high jump, charge with X+A

Chapter 7

Fight: spam high jump, charge with X+A
Grab orange, head to market, through gate, wood pile back right, take, name bar 7th heaven
Go to shrina through tunnel, across platform, downstairs and right to loveless, straight and left to car, get tires
Talk to potion lady one last time
Back to church, grab orange outside
Elevator, entrance, outside, across to platform, across platform, outside, away from hole, arrive at church

Chapter 8

When in shinra mansion open safe

Order: Top Right, Bottom Right, Top Left, Bottom Left

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR3VMSfsOV8\

Fuse vital slash with high jump to make +16 high jump
Fight: spam charged high jump
Follow indicators
Boss: charged high jumps

Chapter 9

Grab dresser key from scientist on floor
Follow indicators
When back with cloud upstairs, go to southwest room, grab clothes from dresser
Head downstairs and leave and make it to save
Follow indicators
Boss: ready soma then spam charged high jump

Chapter 10

Follow indicators
Pickup item shop from chest leaving gonga, buy blizzaga and equip
Boss: ready soma then spam charged high jump
Go down into hole

Chapter 10 Optional Missions

Do 1-1-2, spam attack and high jump
Do 1-1-3, spam attack and high jump on groups
Do 1-1-4, spam attack, use high jump and limits on groups
Do 6-1-x, 6-3-x
Do 4-1-x, 4-2-x, on 4-2-6, cast barrier, spam charged high jumps, on the last guy you need to hold block to avoid instant death
From wutai shop, buy elemental strike and hell firaga
Equip elemental strike, status ward, and hell firaga
Do 1-1-5, spam attack, use high jump and limits on groups
Do 1-1-6, spam attack, use high jump and limits on groups

Around level 35 with 8k health, you should be strong enough to get to the best leveling spot in the game.

Which requires: 8-4-x, 8-5-x, 8-6-1 -> 8-6-4.

8-5-6 is a very tough boss fight against a stronger Bahamut Fury.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/psp/925138-crisis-core-final-fantasy-vii/faqs/75088/mission-8-4-x#mission-8-4-6

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/psp/925138-crisis-core-final-fantasy-vii/faqs/75088/mission-8-5-x#mission-8-5-6

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/psp/925138-crisis-core-final-fantasy-vii/faqs/75088/mission-8-6-x

You can grind to level 99, it takes about 8 hours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpUkZu6FL9o

There are 300 side missions and 16 shops to open. Go explore to your hearts desire.

Shinra Building Shop ——> given
Research Dept. QMC ——> story progress (first g-eraser in chapter 3)
Research Dept. QMC + ——> chest in story(the one we got right outside Gongaga)
Wutai Secret Shop ——> finish mission 4-2-6
Sector 8 - Materia Shop ——> finish mission 6-2-1
Sector 5 Materia Shop ——> finish mission 6-2-3
Sector 6 Accessory Shop ——> finish mission 6-2-6
Sector 7 Shop ——> chest in mission 4-4-3
The Happy Turtle ——> chest in mission 4-3-6
Gongaga Trading ——> finish mission 2-3-1
Nibel Accessories ——> chest in mission 6-4-4
Junon Souvernirs ——> chest in mission 2-4-1
Bone Village Commerce ——> chest in mission 7-5-3
Mythril Mine Trading ——> finish mission 2-4-5
Network Shop Duo ——> chest in mission 9-3-3
Net Shop Shade ——> chest in mission 9-5-4

You don’t have to do it all now, there’s a bunch of achievements you can chase in new game plus too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_lBYhQp0xI&list=PLRr5L69yg_kHSNm-c8dHB3FBEY8A3aJ1z

Chapter 10 End game

Collect 7 materia and put on pedastal
Boss 1: barrier, charged high jump, soma
Boss 2: barrier, charged high jump, soma, blizzaga when sword is not down
Boss 3: barrier, charged high jump, soma