Final Fantasy VII

Introduction

This is a walkthrough of Final Fantasy VII. As with any walkthrough, this document contains spoilers. It was developed for the English language version of Final Fantasy VII for PlayStation. Some things may not work on other platforms or alternate language versions.

I intend to add some tools to help you learn the game system more easily. As of my original writing, this was one of the most complete walkthroughs of Final Fantasy VII on the net. I am happy to accept requests or corrections.

Walkthrough Notes

As I said above, all walkthroughs contain spoilers. What I’ve tried to do here is set this site up so that you can get the information you need without having to read the whole document.

Please see the points below for things you’ll want to know about that do not involve spoilers. I recommend reading them before even starting the game. Then play each section first, saving at every possible point. When you finish a section, go back to the walkthrough and see if there is anything you missed. I’ll include various hints, tips, tricks, and cheats I may have noticed along the way.

Points to Remember

Things I wish someone had told me starting out.

Enter the menu by pressing triangle and use the config menu to set the battle speed to faster, the cursor to memory, and the ATB to wait.
Examine all walls. Look for the Turtle’s Paradise posters from the start; you can’t get back to all of them.
Concentrate on leveling up characters in the following order: Yuffie, Cloud, Cid, Red XIII, Barret, Tifa, Vincent, Cait Sith, Aeris. If you are leveling up characters, don’t include the lower value ones until later on. Also, don’t worry too much about buying expensive weapons, armor, or accessories for lower level characters.
It can be tempting to sell off a master level materia, but if you keep one of each you can transform them into something very cool. If you really need money, I would suggest you only sell your master level All Materia. You’ll end up with a ton of it, and you don’t need more than two or three at most. This is also why I suggest: if you can’t decide what to level up, level up an All Materia.
Attack this game from the standpoint that you do want to beat it completely. If you decide not to at some point, you can always stop doing the tough stuff. Otherwise, you may miss out on something you really need.
See the colors in the text? Those colors correspond to the materia type. I’ll be linking this to other materia information as time goes on, but in the meantime it gives you an idea what you can do with it. The available materia types are Independent Materia, Support Materia, Command Materia, Magic Materia, and Summon Materia.
Any time you see an item in a dashed box, you can hover, focus, or tap it for more information about that item. Try it with or .