Walkthrough


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W a l k t h r o u g h
Written (well, started) by RedXIII
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Mako Reactor No. 1 Sector 7 Slums

M a k o R e a c t o r N o . 1 You start the game with a scene of a flower girl and a train. After the train stops, you'll see two guards. Some people will jump off of the train and kill the guards. Soon a man jumps out commanding you to follow him. Go up to the closest guard and hit O a few times to take two Potions - items that restore 100 HP - from him. Push D to bring the menu up and select Config. Newcomers to RPGs should set the ATB to Wait. People with some past experience with RPGs should set it to Recommended. Experts of RPGs (like myself) should set it to Active. Move Battle Speed over to fast, but leave Battle Message and Field Message settings the way they are. Hit X twice to exit the menu. Walk forward (hold X while walking to run) until two blue guys (MPs) show up and start fighting you. Here we have the battle screen. You see your name (for now Ex-SOLDIER), your Barrier (that's way later), your HP - Hit Points (current HP/max HP), your MP - Magic Points, your Limit Gauge (later) and your Time Gauge. When the Time Gauge fills, you can do something. You have three choices: Attack (attacks the selected enemy with your weapon), Magic - consisting of Ice and Bold (attacks the selected enemy with the magic you choose - costs 4 MP for each of those two), and Item (uses the selected item on the selected person - for now Ex-SOLDIER). Oh yeah, hitting will hide your battle menu. Go ahead and select Attack and hit O. Choose either enemy - you should be able to kill them each in one hit. After you kill both MPs, a screen will show up showing you how many Experience Points and AP (later) you gained from the battle. It'll also show you your Level (6). After adding the EXP you got from the battle to your total EXP, you will gain a Level to become Level 7. You are now a little stronger. Hit O to see how much gil (money) you earned and if you got any items. You may get a Potion. Select Take Everything and hit O. The Potion is now yours. Exit should automatically be selected, so hit O.
C o n g r a t u l a t i o n s ! You have just won your first battle!
You may have noticed something in the battle. Whenever you were attacked, your Limit Gauge increased. When the Limit Gauge fills completely, that character has reached their "Limit." When they attack next, the choice Attack will say Limit. Hit O, and a new menu pops up. Choose one of your Limits - called Limit Breaks (as in breaking the Limit). For Ex-SOLDIER, your only choice will be Braver. When you choose any Limit Break, the selected character will do something good, whether it is a powerful attack or a helpful spell. After the battle, walk forward a little and head left. You see yourself in a little door. Go right and then up. You will see three people - Biggs, Wedge, and Jessie. Walk towards Biggs (on the far left). Biggs and Jessie talk about you for a moment and soon you are asked for your name. The default is Cloud, but you can enter anything you want. When you've come up with a name, hit Start. If you like the name, hit O on Select. Soon, a large man approaches Cloud. He explains that your target is the North Mako Reactor. Afterwards, you are asked to name the man. The default is Barret. Name him, and Cloud heads on. Try to follow Biggs, by going up, right, up, left, up, and left to a door. You may get in a fight or two with MPs or little blue dogs (Guard Hounds). Kill them and continue through the door. Follow everyone on the bridge into the reactor. Move towards Barret. Cloud and Barret talk. Pay attention to Barret, as he explains some important things. Barret decides to go with Cloud. Talk to Biggs (by the door) to open the door. Now talk to Jessie to open the next door. Go through the door, but instead of following Jessie, head down-right. You should see a shiny yellow box. Walk up to it and press O. You will receive a Phoenix Down, which can be used to revive a dead ally (a dead ally's HP will be zero, and the Phoenix Down will give the ally some HP). Now go to where Jessie is. Talk to Jessie and the door opens. Go inside of it. Jessie tells you to push a button. It is over to the right. It is a triangle pointing down. Walk up to it and press O. The elevator goes down. Barret and Cloud talk some more. Barret gets mad with Cloud, and soon the elevator stops. Leave by heading left. Follow Jessie down the stairs and into a door. You may get in some fights here with 1st Rays (those weird looking robots), or Mono Drives (flower things that float). Barret's gun really comes in handy. Once in the door, go and talk to Jessie to learn how to go down ladders. Walk up to the ladder and press O. Press up or down to move up or down the ladder. For now, go down. Once at the bottom of the ladder, you are on a platform. Walk along it, and you'll see a blue thing. Press O near it to get a Potion. Walk down this next ladder and walk towards the next. Hit O next to it and go down. Go down some more after that. Head toward the next ladder, hit O, and go down. On the way you may fight blue guys called Grunts. If you are in Back Attack - where your back is facing the enemy - tap L1 and R1 together. Then finish off the Grunts. Walk over to the weird blue thing. Step on it to discover a Save Point. Once on it, press D to open the menu. Select Save and hit O. Choose the slot your Memory Card is in (1 or 2). Choose an empty file and hit O. Hit Yes when it asks you if you want to save your game. When your game is saved, hit X three times to return to the game. Okay, now walk down the bridge. On the other side of it, you will see a little orb. Walk up to it and press O. You will pick up the Restore Materia - more on that later - used to Cure an ally with magic. Now, walk to the little wheel. Cloud sets the bomb to blow up the reactor. After that, you're in a fight with the Guard Scorpion. With Barret, attack the boss with his gun. Cloud should use Bolt (by selecting Magic). And when your HP falls to about 150, use a Potion on that character. If any character gets a Limit Break, use it on the Guard Scorpion quickly. When the Scorpion's tail is up, and if you attack it in any way at that time, it'll counterattack with Tail Laser, an attack that does around 75 to Barret and Cloud. You can use this to your advantage. By making the Guard Scorpion use Tail Laser, you should get a couple of Limit Breaks. Just use Potions to keep Barret and Cloud alive. If you don't want to risk it, just heal your party while the Guard Scorpion's tail is up, and attack it like normal when its tail is back down again. After you kill, well, destroy the Guard Scorpion you will receive an Assault Gun. Take this, as it is a weapon for Barret that is stronger than his Gatling Gun. Don't equip it on Barret quite yet because now you have to escape in 10 minutes! That is more than enough time, though you'll still want to hurry. Don't save it at the Save Point. Just hurry back the way you came. Soon, you'll be on a platform thing with Jessie on it. Walk up to Jess and press O. Jessie's leg was stuck, and you need Jessie free to escape. Follow Jessie and soon you'll be in a familiar room with Biggs. To open the first door, talk to Jessie. For the second door, talk to Biggs. After the second door is open, don't leave. Equip Barret's new weapon - press D to open up the menu, select Equip and hit O. Select Barret and hit O. Select Gatling Gun, press O, select Assault Gun, and hit O. After that, walk around and get into some fights, using a Potion when needed. When you have less than a minute left, run to the left to leave. The reactor blows up. After some conversation, everyone splits up. Although you are supposed to split up, follow Barret. You will see a flower girl. When she asks "What happened?" say "Nothing...hey, listen..." Then say "Don't see many flowers around here." Buy a flower - only 1 gil. After that, follow the flower girl as she goes down. Walk down some more, and near the end you should see a blue potion. Walk up to it and press O. Then, keep going down. Some Shinra Soldiers (MPs) show up. You should choose to fight them for the experience and gil they give you. If you wait to long to choose, you fight them. Three more show up after you kill or run from the first two. You should fight them. After you're done with those three, three more show up. If you choose to fight them (which you should) you'll be in a situation that can be good or bad. You have two enemies in front of you, and one behind. When you are attacked from an enemy that is behind you, it does more damage - perfect to kill you and to raise your Limit Gauge. So, if you keep Cloud's HP up, you'll be fine. Finish with them, and Cloud is surrounded by MPs. Cloud makes a bold move and jumps down onto a moving train - the same train with Biggs, Wedge, Jessie, and Barret inside! The door opens soon, and Cloud jumps inside. Follow everyone as they jump over some boxes. Go over and talk to Jessie, and you get to see a model of Midgar. Jessie also explains a few things, so pay attention. When you're done, you're in the ID Security Check area, which ends about as abruptly as it started. Then go talk to Biggs for a laugh, and walk towards Barret. You find out about the plate that blocks you from the sky, or as Barret calls it, the 'pizza.' The train ride is about to end now. Everyone jumps out. Walk towards Barret when he calls everyone. Follow everyone to your left.
S e c t o r S e v e n S l u m s Welcome to the Slums of Sector 7. Before heading left again walk up to find a person and a Save Point. You can talk, but be sure to save it (over the file you made earlier). Then head left. Barret and the others force everyone out of a bar. Go talk to Barrent, and then walk in the bar, called the Seventh Heaven. A lady walks up to you and talks to you. She asks if you fought with Barret. Just choose whatever you want - I usually choose "Yeah." You then name the lady. The default name is Tifa. After you name her, she notices your flower (if you bought one). You can give it to Tifa or Marlene (the small girl) - I usually give it to Marlene. As you approach the exit, Barret storms in. The meeting is about to start, but go talk to Tifa. You can ask for a drink, but when you're done, walk over to the little pin ball elevator and press O. When you are in the AVALANCHE hideout, walk over to the tv and press O. Walk towards Barret. He talks with Cloud, and finds out that Cloud only cares about his money. Walk over to the pin ball elevator and press O. Try to leave, and Tifa hurries up. Cloud tries to leave, and makes Tifa mad. You can then either say "How can you say that!" or "......Sorry." I usually say I'm sorry. Cloud is soon reminded of a promise he made to Tifa seven years earlier, when Cloud had wanted to leave his town for Midgar, so he could join SOLDIER. Cloud promises to help Tifa out if she's in a bind. Cloud says he can't keep the promise, though. As if Barret was listening, he comes up to keep his promise - paying Cloud 1500 gil. Cloud decides to do the next mission too - destroying the Sector 5 Reactor. When Cloud wakes up, ride the elevator, and talk to Tifa. She asks you how you slept. I usually say "Next to you, who wouldn't?" She says she's coming with you this time. Talk to Barret. He soon asks you how to use Materia. Go ahead and explain it to him because you'll need to know. Barret doesn't understand, so he leaves you in charge of Materia. After Tifa talks to you, hit D. Select Materia and hit O. Select Cloud and hit O. You can see he has Lightning and Ice Materia. Leave it that way. Hit L1 and you will see Tifa's Materia (she has none). Choose the empty Materia slot and hit O. Select the Restore Materia and hit O. Tifa now has the Cure Magic, which restores HP. Then hit to see what Tifa has equipped. Hit L1 to see Barret's equipment. Make sure his weapon is the Assault Gun. Hit X twice, and leave Tifa's Seventh Heaven. Walk down and look for a store with a sign that looks like it says "G." There should be another store next to it. Walk inside the shop (to the right of the "G"). Talk to the guy on your left. Select Buy and hit O. Select Iron Bangle and hit O again. Hit the right directional button twice. Hit O. You have just bought three Iron Bangles. Hit X twice. Hit D. Choose Equip, and then choose Cloud. Hit the down directional button once, selecting Armor. Hit O. Choose the Iron Bangle. Equip the other two Iron Bangles on Barret and Tifa. Hit X twice. Walk up the ladder. Walk in the door near another ladder. Talk to the person to your right near an orb. When the treasure chest falls, hit O. You now have an All Materia - used with another Materia to cast Magic on all enemies or all allies (for example, if you pair Restore with All, you can cast Cure on everyone in your party by only casting it once) - and an Ether - restores 100 MP. Look for the Save Point and save it.