Final Fantasy VII

Disc 2: North Corel Huge Materia and Mideel

Fort Condor Huge Materia

Head to Fort Condor and fight some battles. If you haven’t been following along, see the Fort Condor section for advice on the mini-game. When the battle is over, head outside to obtain the Phoenix Materia, then go down stairs and talk to the old guy near the top of the entrance rope. He’s the father of the guy at the very top of the tower, and he’ll give you the .

North Corel Huge Materia

Head to North Corel next, the town where you take the tram up to the Gold Saucer. Go to the north end of town and take the bridge. After that, take the tracks all the way north.

If you’d like to take a few minutes to grind , , and items, the screen where you lowered a drawbridge earlier in the game is a great spot.

Enemy Notes:

Steal a from a Search Crown, then morph it into a . They come in groups of five, or in groups of three with a couple of flying Needle Kiss enemies.
Needle Kiss enemies can be morphed into items. Or, if you’re all full of these items, just use Trine or Slash-All on them.
If you’re lucky, you’ll run across a couple of Needle Kiss enemies with a Bagnadrana. The Bagnadrana can be morphed into a .
You can also steal a from a Bagnadrana, but you probably stole or bought one earlier in the game.

Keep taking the tracks until you come to the Corel Reactor, then go straight for the middle of the reactor. You’ll get into a battle with the Shinra dudes, then you’ll jump on a train.

Alternate between pressing up arrow and triangle to catch up to the train. You’ll automatically jump. Just run left and fight on each car. Don’t use long-time summons here, like Alexander and Neo Bahamut, and you should be fine.

I used Cid, Cait Sith, and Vincent. They just beat people up well. Here’s what I fought on the various cars:

Car	Enemy	Notes
1	1x Gas Ducter	Nothing to steal. Just use conventional attacks.
2	2x Gas Ducter	Nothing to steal. Just use conventional attacks.
3	1x Wolfmeister	Nothing to steal. Magic Breath works well, but Aqualung is really your best friend in this battle.
4	1x Eagle Gun	Steal a Warrior Bangle. Trine is great on this enemy.
5	1x Attack Squad	You can steal an 8 Inch Cannon, but you can do that against any number of these guys, so just go after him normally.

Even with writing this while I was typing, I got this finished with 4 minutes left, so it really shouldn’t be any problem for you. Press up and triangle at the same time, then down and X. Do that a few times, and this section will be over.

You now have your second . Walk into the middle of town. Remember that kid who kept telling you stuff about the glowing rock in the well?

Congratulations, you now have the Ultima Materia. You’ll go to sleep as soon as you finish talking, but equip it as soon as you wake up.

Your guys talk it over, and they decide to go visit Cloud and Tifa. After that you’ll be heading to the underwater reactor at Junon. Go back to the Highwind and, if you haven’t already gotten Contain Materia from the white chocobo, hit the Chocobo Farm and buy one of each kind of green. Don’t worry about the various kinds of nuts. Then hightail it to Mideel.

Mideel Revisited

When you get back to Mideel, save your game right outside town. Equip Enemy Skill Materia and Comet Materia to at least one person, then go inside and talk to the nurse. You’ll rest up, which is useful for the next battle. Now talk to the doctor, then Cloud, then Tifa. Head out when the earthquake starts, and you’ll notice Weapon show up to play.

You’ll scare him off fairly quickly if you do what I just said. Cid will taunt Weapon, then things get nasty, then Tifa moves Cloud directly into the Lifestream. Because, hey, he hasn’t had enough exposure to Mako, right?

Anyway, you’ll wake up as Tifa, eventually. Talk to all three of the Clouds. Start at the bottom right, then the left, then the top. When he stands up, talk to him again. Try to exit the top of the screen, then you’ll get a fun flashback. When Tifa finally shuts up, have her go talk to Cloud. After some cut scenes, head to the Cloud on the far left.

Now talk to the fourth Cloud who has just materialized. And the third Cloud, the bottom-right Cloud. Follow number four toward the window. Watch a lot of cut scenes. Become Tifa, talk to Cloud. Blah blah blah. Become Tifa again, go back to Nibelheim, again. When you hear the REALLY annoying screeching sound, then you’re going to be teleported to the world where Laguna is…

NO WAIT! Sorry, that’s a different Final Fantasy with the same annoying sound effect.

What I meant to say was, when you hear the sound, go and talk to the Cloud in the middle of the screen. He should be the only Cloud you can see now. You’ll jump out of the Lifestream and have MORE cut scenes.

Eventually, you’ll be Cloud again. Equip cool equipment and then swap in materia from one of your other characters. Go back to Mideel. Talk to the old guy by the dog, then climb the green thing to his left. You’ll run up to the weapon shop, the doctor, and a white chocobo.

If you have one of every type of green, and you haven’t done it already, you can get Contain Materia from this chocobo. Just talk to him, then tickle behind his ears. If you try to talk to him and it says, “Chocobos act cold to humans who don’t look like they’ll give them any greens,” then it means you don’t have the right kind of greens.

Now go MATE CHOCOBOS. See the Chocobo Racing section. You can continue on if you want, but if you want totally OP characters, that path is the path of the Chocobo breeder. Seriously. At least take a quick peek at the Chocobo Racing section.