10+ Tips & Tricks I Wish I knew (Basics/Advanced) PART 1 - Final Fantasy VII: Remake

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[@CaedoGenesis]

PART 2 IS OUT: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lYPMh4uNmd9oZtU It's got some details on hard mode if you feel like a REAL challenge!

[@xcorr77]

Tifa's chi and triangle combo attacks are not just for stagger, they deal stupid amounts of damage too, especially when using the starshower ability right before unleashing the combo for an attack boost.

[@thelonecourier5664]

Caedo Genesis are you going to do a play through of something since a lot of us are quarantined?

[@beastofdarknesss5822]

Can you get enemy lure materia or something similar?

[@fable23]

Spells have different properties _besides_ their element. Fire is a fast projectile that explodes upon impact. Blizzard is a projectile that turns into an ice block that explodes about a second *after* impact, so be careful when you use it so enemies don't evade the blast. Thunder strikes from above and never misses. Aero creates a small "mine" of wind wherever the enemy is, which bursts after about a second. Again, try to use it when enemies are occupied. The -ra and -ga versions of each spell increase the area of effect as well as the damage, but also take longer to cast. This isn't like most FF games where higher level spells simply replace their lower level counterparts; it's situational. Because of their fast casting times, the lower level spells are often more useful for exploiting enemy weaknesses and building up stagger, while the higher level spells are what you want to unleash when an enemy is stunned or staggered.

[@BingBangPoe]

Yes! It is amazing how they made every graduation of spell have its own use rather than just "Stop using Fire to use Firaga." I'm mesmerized to how the team made sure you use everything at your disposal rather than "discarding" old ones. Much like they did the same with the weapon upgrades, meaning you can essentially play the whole game with the Buster Sword if you so want.

[@Ephideltrance]

Basically this game utilizes the stagger system of FF13....where big magic is definitely more useful when the foe is already staggered. A lot of monsters are susceptible to slow/stop...so that is also another good way to get off the big spells. I want to add one last thing- folks, do not underestimate bio...it is perhaps the best spell, though it is non elemental, lots of enemies are susceptible to poison and that damage overtime really adds up.

[@ale03000]

AND when your action gets interrupted from enemys' attacks you fail to cast the spell or use the item, ATB bar wasted right

[@nicholasnajibi3082]

jabberwagon Everything you said was unnecessary. Don’t go out of your way worried about how each spell behaves. you just cast slow or stop... and then absolutely cast a required element regardless of how it behaves. Using proper elements and physical/special attacks are vital to staggering and finishing enemies.

[@XxDrJewxX]

Set camera distance to 3 in and out of battle, set combo to free style and lock on to directional buttons, you now have a large view out of battle and of the battlefield when on fights and a free roaming camera controlled with the right stick, you are welcomed

[@LegoLad01]

Indeed! I was very annoyed right away with the camera up cloud's bum....the first thing i did was pull the camera back

[@lefteetris131]

Thank you!

[@oggregster]

Another thing to add in options select gameplay and switch the cursor position from forget to remember for both in and out of battle. I find you save a lot of time that way, especially on the battlefield when use want to reuse a certain ability, instead of always waste time and scroll down from the top.

[@mickyengy3204]

@@LegoLad01 this made laugh 😂 but it's quite ironic because *spoilers* he might actually need a camera up his bum on part 3 when he gets put in a wheelchair haha

[@AFKain]

Here's a small list of things I found out while playing. Spells, abilities and Limit Breaks can not only be interrupted but you can also die in the middle of using them, thus wasting the MP, ATB charge or meter. Not all enemies will sit still, sometimes it's better to just put Elemental Materia on a weapon and go nuts with the combos. Braver NEVER stops being useful. It's able to chunk a good portion of most of the bosses and tougher enemies in later parts of the game. You can get a second Elemental Materia for doing side quests. Despite this, you can also MISS this item because it's sitting on the ground and hard to see. The pull up mini game is a chore and a half, but learn the timing and stop thinking "I need to beat this guy" instead try "I need to get 45" since the AI never seems to go above 44 pull ups. If you really need to use items, do it. Near the end I had well over 90k Gil and all of my items (except Elixers) were in the 80's and the shops will just keep selling more at discount price. I know this doesn't apply to Hard difficulty, but before then it helps. Blocking is the best skill to know for end game, boost up the materia that makes your block stronger. You'll thank yourself later. In terms of spells that I've cast, I found that the spell I used most frequently was Firaga with Thundaga coming up not that often but still used against robots. If I ran into flyers, I generally just used Barret. Never used Blizzaga because enemies don't stay still for the ice to explode. Summons like Ifrit generally only come out during boss fights. You don't need Curaga unless you make a tank like I did. At the end game, Cloud and co. had around 4000 HP which Cura (cast by anyone) would fully heal them. Aerith casting Heal did roughly the same amount with Barret being the only one needing Curaga thanks to Big Bertha and HP Up putting him near 8000 HP. Although Aerith casting Cura on him healed for around 6500. On that note, the Magnify materia that lets you cast one spell on multiple targets makes your spell weaker. I figured this was common sense but I've met a lot of people who were unaware of this fact. The Item Boost materia is pretty useful late game if you don't have everyone with a cure and revive materia. A Mega Potion normally heals for 1500, but with the Item Boost, it was healing for 2100. Swap characters frequently so the AI keeps moving around. It's cheesy but it does help a bit. All enemies, and especially the bosses, have a pattern to their attacks. Some bosses won't even allow you to hit them at all unless you know what you're doing. Going into Hard Mode? MP Up is going to be key for your party since you can't use items. HP up is just generally useful for everyone. Magic Up is a great stat booster as well if you're going the mage route. All of your weapons can change how you play the character. Beyond learning the skills on them and going back to what you want to use, all of them have different stats. If you want pure melee DPS, use Hardedge or the Nail Bat. If you wanna be a more mage type, use Twin Stinger or the Mytrhil Saber. Want to be balanced in everything? You can't go wrong with the Buster Sword. Iron Blade is for being tankier and support mage. For the rest? I don't know. Tifa's iron gauntlets give her the best damage and Barrets Big Bertha gives him the most health and defenses. I specifically built those two that way to compliment my own playstyle.

[@supersaiyaman11589]

while its true that magnify makes your spell cast on other characters weaker you yourself get the full healing effect and the magnify Materia is still very useful as heling once with it saves a lot of mp. also some of the mp can be gained back by using the Healing Carcanet accessory. if you need an extra heal you can cast arises arcane ward than do heling with magnify.

[@supersaiyaman11589]

Aerith

[@bmassey-]

Magnify + Spell + Arcane Ward = double elemental spell to all targets.

[@kinh0t]

Its obvious, not a tip

[@larryjones6927]

Still appreciated tho

[@bmassey-]

You can cut Tifa's animation for Divekick in half and turn it into a 2 hit combo for way more damage. During the start up animation of Divekick, she jumps in the air, then dives down.. takes a while. Use Whirling Uppercut instead, at the apex of the move, select Dive Kick from the command list and she will just dive down instead of stopping, then starting Dive Kick from the start.

[@derekblasutti1427]

Tifa triangle cancel. Any time you use one of Tifa's triangle attacks, use dive kick right after it hits and cancels out her bounce back and immediately hits the dive kick. Mapping it to L1+triangle makes it really easy to pull off.

[@piggydogboy]

even though we love to watch Tifa bounce ; )

[@EbuCallinav]

Give the Parry Materia to Tifa, It allows you to hold block at all times without sacrificing speed which works well with the Steadfast Block Materia, cancel out of animations to attack faster, and generally slide around the battle field like a fiend.

[@JeffKang84]

7:13 This is a great tip, and one of the more important ones. There are comments mentioning that you can change the Lock-On Switching from Direction Input to D-Pad. That would free up your Right Thumbstick to pan the camera while locked on. However, it doesn't hurt to often pause and change targets just to look around -- prevent tunnel vision when there are multiple enemies.

[@Ephideltrance]

So many useful tips here. What can I add, there are only two elemental materia in the whole game and 1 magnify regardless of redoing the chapters. Thing is there is an enemy skill that the cerulean drake can teach you- that basically shields you with an ice shroud that does minimal damage to enemies that come close to you. The real cool thing with that skill is that it gives all your physical attacks the ice element...so it is a 3rd elemental of sorts but only for ice. Honestly, I think Barret is better at staggering than Tifa when not considering exploiting elemental weaknesses...those bullets work so well on anything that is machines and ghost, and overcharge, his uppercut move to quickly build back overcharge is a great combination. Steelskin also protects Barret from interruption...very useful.

[@CaedoGenesis]

Algid Aura is a weird one, because it appears to get boosted by whatever elemental combo you have on your weapon too. It's also strengthened by magic buffs, including Magic Up materia. Pair Enemy Skill with HP Absorb and you'll have a hard time losing! I plan on doing a materia combo video too at some point, and that enemy skill in particular has the most utility for sure!

[@SerathDarklands]

Something I really learned in my most recent playthrough - the Time materia is super underrated. Casting haste on your party makes their ATB gauges fill up way faster, which allows for quickly overpowering enemies. Pair it with Magnify, and cast it as soon as the fight starts, and you can get a massive early advantage in every fight.

[@permeus2nd]

Be paranoid about saving, for the most part this game is great at its auto saves but there is one game braking bug towards the end of the game, when in a vent you can look down and see what random nobody’s are talking about problem is the circle button to back out of this view dosnt always work meaning you have to quit to the menu, the auto save is close by only costing you somthing like 5 minutes but it’s just before a point you can grind at and I have heard of some people not saving after they spent hours leveling up then hit this bug and well there goes the 6 hours of leveling they did, so be like me and be paranoid about saving. When you cast stop on a mob that’s staggered will also stop it’s stagger bar from ticking down giving you up to ten seconds more stagger to work with. Deadly dodge + Hp absorb actually works, I personally thought that HP absorb would need a green materia but apparently not.

[@douglaswilliams4935]

😭..... that’s exactly what happened to me I finished all of the combat simulator continued playing just to have to quit and loss my progress... lost at least 2-3 hours of progress.

[@icyblue878]

Seeing one of my favorite Fallout youtubers cover FF7 is amazing. I learned some good stuff here. Thanks Caedo.

[@eduardbernardo3170]

tip, check for your slot links, on your weapon and armor, blue materia can be link with green materia, also be mindfull on your build, gone is the day of max stats, asign roles on each members of the party

[@modestalchemist]

it took me a whole playthrough to figure out why i couldn't get punisher mode's counter strike to work. when you're IN punisher mode, the display says operator mode. i was IN operator mode the whole time. it's probably really obvious to everyone, and i just derped really hard.

[@BingBangPoe]

No, I can understand that confusion. It makes sense, because your brain thinks that the "Punisher Mode" text means that you're in Punisher Mode, when it is actually "Hey, press this to SWITCH to Punisher Mode".

[@probeman]

wow...i’m doing the same thing. thanks for breaking that down

[@calverouney]

Incredibly useful video! Very clear and concise. I'll be playing this amazing game for the first time later this week and your video helped me gain a further insight in the combat mechanics/techniques. Cheers!

[@TitanofHerosPC]

I got a tip for for FF7 remake players Triple slash almost everything with cloud and most battles will become alot easier lol. Dont use it on flying enemies though, or anything NOT on the ground, cause then it will miss^^. Surely one of clouds best attacks he can learn early on into the late parts of the game for smashing through multiple enemies in seconds! Regen (if available to you from the healing materia at rank 3) at every hard battle, it will save alot of healing through most battles, and the regen scales with how much hp your character has! (about 1% of your health back every second/few seconds, so for example, My barret has 7k health, so it regens by about 70 a sec or so!)

[@TheRealEraser]

i would say a better use of magnify is barrier then manaward and at late game manawall. 50% damage reduction from attacks is better than small heals via regen.

[@bmassey-]

I second magnify with manawall for hard mode. I would replace all healing with prayer and maybe 1 or 2 chakra depending on set up also. The accessory that starts each battle with limit break max (gotterdammerung), and the materia that allows you to use a limit break called refocus are pretty big deals for hard mode as well. Every character should have revive as well, imo... since the AI is pretty bad and get themselves killed. The character you had revive on dedicated to may die unexpectedly.

[@nicholasnajibi3082]

MG it was way too much to read. So I didn’t read it. I think player should just learn as they go it tells you how to play in the tutorial. Step by step....

[@kimredxiii]

One of the most beneficial things that took me a while to learn while playing is that you can control your teams actions without having to switch to them by pulling up the attack menu and scrolling through with the bumpers. Also equip new weapon when fighting weaker enemies and make sure to use your weapons special so that they can be added to your permanent usable attacks

[@ThisAdventureFamily]

Enjoyed watching . Nice content

[@sephiroth1985102514]

Also, if there are any in the game (I haven't played it yet), anything undead is weak to curative magic or items. Found that out playing the original. You can get an INSTANT kill on the Demon Wall boss by throwing a Phoenix Down at him the instant the fight starts.

[@CaedoGenesis]

Yep there are numerous undead in one spot in FF7:R and I can confirm that healing spells work on them. However, you might be confusing Demon Gate with Gi Nattak.

[@NathanCundiff]

ghosts are weak to revive

[@mik2dae143]

Another tip if you plan on doing a Hard play through. Level up all you materia to the max if you can post game via chapter 14. Farm the collapsed train area between sector 5 and sector 6 to get the most AP the fastest. Once you get all the materia leveled up, skip to chapter 17 and do the battle simulator until you get the Gotterdammerung! It may take sometime but it will make your hard play through much easier! Hard play through is very tough! Enemies do a shit ton of damage and benches no longer fill you AP so you have to be very careful using magic. It only refills after you’re done with the chapter.

[@Oritsuru65]

Another tip I saw pointed out on another video was that you can actually rebind keys for target locking onto the d-pad so while you're locked onto a target you can use the joystick to move the camera without changing the target :)

[@westfall300]

Yeah, I found that out as well after 15+ hours and imo it was an absolutely huge improvement.

[@Titus921]

before you make a spell move or ability move with the L1 menu short cut bar make sure that you are aiming at the target intended since the game has auto target when battling multiple opponents or you might end up shooting a spell or ability to the wrong target or worse wasted in the air

[@DontPaniku]

Best tips for FF7 I've seen!

[@Kaeldo]

Also for Block if you block attacks it fills up the ATB bar faster ( with a certain Materia you can block more dmg and get even faster ATB charge ) so blicking is for the most part the better option than evade.

[@MrExeetor]

Tifa combat is so deep. You can cancel out of her basic combo into most of her abilities and its usually always worth to keep her at max lvl in chi until you stagger an enemy. Like if a basic combo move (or other move) puts her in the air u can cancel directly into Dive Kick in the air and so on. By far the most fun to activly play imo. Tip is to asign her moves to quick-buttons thou. Flow of combat is so nice to her then

[@CaedoGenesis]

I've been learning this more as I go, been loving that deadly dodge puts her at the end of her final combo!

[@MxJavice]

Combine Barret's lifesaver ability with Chakra and prayer using the tricks you mentioned to get barret fast ATB. Add haste and barrier on hard fights and barret becomes basically a tank and healer in one. This has helped me a lot conserving MP for offensive spells instead of spending it on cure's.

[@mik2dae143]

Tifa is OP if you use her right. Spam the regular attack until you get enough ATB to level up your unbridled strength. Always get her unbridled strength to level 3, it only takes a few seconds. Then unleash all her triangle attacks until she does her uppercut, while she’s in mid air, use divekick to complete the combo. This is the most OP combo in the game. Whatever is in front of you will lay down! Tifa is incredible! Especially once you start adding materia to further make her gain ATB even quicker! She does the most damage out of the group 100%

[@tonystarts-8011]

Steadfast Guard materia is really nice to have on all your characters during the hardcore runs. The non-player used fighters play more defensive then offensive. This materia will cut down on a nice amount of dmg while blocking, and you'll gain a nice amount of ATB.

[@rhysproudmourne1646]

Cloud does well against fleshy enemies like dogs and humans as well as most robots. You can stagger them fast with him as well. If they become pressured, use your high staggering abilities. Clouds best staggering ability is focused thrust. Rita’s are True Strike and he two chi specials. Just have ATB for when you see pressured happen, especially on bosses.

[@Giantcloo]

Barret's quick charge doesn't just apply to the end of his basic attack, it can be done after all of his ATB abilities and most offensive spells as well, allowing for incredibly quick charging no matter what you're doing.

[@BingBangPoe]

3:31 Actually, AI controlled characters will never use their ATB on their own. Also, if I may add a tip on my own for Barret: always start the fight with Barret as the controlled character and use Overacharge ASAP. He'll always start with it at full charge, so just pump that shit and switch to another character. As for Tifa: she can actually instantly use Dive Kick while she is airborne, whether it is from using aerial attacks or after using Whirling Uppercut. Doing so will cause her to instantly dive at her opponents instead of winding up. Also, stagger goes above 200% and there is no apparent cap; there is even an Trophy for getting the stagger bonus to 300% (which can be easily done at the Fat Chocobo VR Fight by spamming True Strike when he is staggered, which gives a whooping 30% bonus to stagger). Now, for some tips about Hard Mode: - I'd recommend having a pair of Deadly Dodge + HP Absorption Materias (both maxed) for Cloud and Tifa. While the HP regained won't be much, it does help and reduces your need to use magic to heal, since you can't use items and benchs don't recover MP. - Equip Steadfast Block Materia on EVERYONE. This further reduces damage when blocking and gives you a lot of ATB when you block attacks. ATB becomes invaluable in Hard Mode. - Equip ATB Stagger Materia on EVERYONE. This one gives a lot of ATB when you inflict stagger to enemies. - Have at least on character with a maxed Prayer Materia (I'd say Barret). When maxed it can heal around 5.000, and it is not affected by the magic attribute since it is a command materia. Having so can save a lot of MP in normal battles, so you can go to boss fights with full MP. - Elemental Materia is your best friend. You can get 2 Elemental Materias in the game. Make sure to get them maxed (it takes forever, though) before starting Hard Mode, and link them with magic materia based on the enemies you'll fight in the chapter (i.e. link it with Fire Materia at Chapter 1 since most enemies here are human and weak to fire, then swap to Lightning Materia before the Scorpion Sentinel since it is weak to lightning). Additionally, at max level Elemental Materia can absorb damage, so if you think ahead, some bosses will be able to heal you with their attacks. - Smash all the boxes. Apparently in Hard Mode the Mako Shards recover more HP than in normal mode. - Make Cloud the designated healer. Since Aerith will only join at halfway through the game won't be a permanent character, you'll need to have someone to do the healing. While Mythril Saber is Cloud's best weapon for magic, I recommend sticking with Twin Stinger. Not only is has a balance between attack and magic, but also has upgrades that decrease the cost of healing magic. In addition, equip him with the Healing Carcanet to increase the effectiveness of healing spells. - Make Barret the designated tank. His whole kit is already built around mitigating damage and taking damage for his allies. Equip him with Big Bertha (has the most upgrades on Defense and bonus HP), Provoke Materia and Barrier Materia. In boss battles always have him to use Steelskin, Lifesaver and Barrier/Manawall/Manaward (depending on the situation) on himself. This will make him absurdly resilient. Plus, at level 50, a single maxed HP Plus Materia puts him close to 9999 HP. - Maximize Aerith's magic bulk. This can be easily done by equipping her with the Mythril Staff, which has the most Magic Bonus upgrades, as well the Platinum Earrings and as many Magic Plus Materias you can (I think there are only 2 in the game, if I'm not wrong). With this setup her magic can get over 400, it is insane.

[@CaedoGenesis]

Thanks for the tips! I've yet to jump into Hard Mode, hopefully tonight!

[@BingBangPoe]

@@CaedoGenesis noice! Good luck! It is not that hard if you go well prepared. :) Hell House is pretty hard, though.

[@TuberTugger]

To be pedantic, they will never use ATB on their own if you don't equip the related materia. Auto-cure and synergy come to mind.

[@BingBangPoe]

@@TuberTugger yes, those are exceptions since that's the actual mechanic of the Materias, otherwise they won't use anything.

[@erikjernstedt555]

You just reminded me of something from the original FF7: When a materia hit max level, it spit out a new one. That would have been a nice feature in the remake in my opinion. Is it just me, or did SqEx make materia super easy to get (in general) in the remake?

[@tyrant-thanatos]

Great tips man. The one thing I'd add is regarding target lock: not only can you switch targets while the command menu is up, you can also toggle target lock on or off, and use the touchpad info function as well. I almost always bring up the command menu whenever I'm handling any sort of targetting situation, so I don't have to feel rushed to pick a target and get it locked.

[@DrGamelove]

Great tips, thank you. I was never a huge fan of the original game but I’m absolutely loving this. Although I can’t help but wonder what fans of the original think because it’s just SO different.

[@iyobakti9964]

It is man. I played the original like 20 years ago, and have been playing it over and over again for the past 2 or 3 years. Just got my copy of the remake a week ago and am in chapter 9. Battle mechanics? Great (though it does take time getting used to). Graohics? duh, it's a 20 years gap, would be shame if it looked any lower. Plot changes? Meh...

[@DabbaHashery]

I'm the OG fan hater. I can't chill, watch TV and smoke a bowl while playing. It requires all my focus. I never liked mortal kombat or smash bros either.

[@FlukeyKent.]

Good videos #Subbed You confirmed some of my suspicions no one from the videos I've watched mention.. AI targeting your character and your teammates kinda hoarding their abilities

[@moonscar119]

Summons have different sizes cactaur, carbuckle, choco chick - small ifrit, choco mog, shiva - medium fat chocobo, leviathan, bahamut - large Depending on the size room you are in will determie if you can have a summon. it's best to take one from each group so you can use the largest summon available when the summon appears. The cactaur came in very handy in the sewers after meeting the don, or when going back to the sewrers

[@uhhhhNick]

Best farming spot after you beat the game is ch. 16 when you infiltrate shinra hq. Equip Mythril sword for high magic damage and any other magic buffing gear. Firaga + magnify in one linked slot and firaga + mp absorb in another linked slot. You can run through super fast and then reset.

[@TuberTugger]

I thought this would be useful but honestly, you max out pretty fast during your hard run. Grinding is kind of a waste of time.

[@marvinthemartian4044]

FYI: if you Spam Square (attack) after pressing triangle to charge for Barret, that spamming will greatly increase the charge

[@fable23]

Some more helpful tips: The Parry Materia is really stupidly misnamed. A more accurate name would be "Improved Dodge." It lets you do a special dodge by holding down block that activates faster, has less recovery, cancels some animations, does damage, and has block frames (still no I frames though). In addition, each character has a unique parry animation, and some have special PROPERTIES. Cloud's Parry allows you to dodge while in Punisher mode without canceling it back into Operator, making him much more versatile in that mode. Tifa's Parry is a slide that goes so far, so fast, that it basically makes her the most mobile character in the game. Using Parry, she can actually avoid a lot of homing moves that other characters are basically guaranteed to get hit by. Also, don't sleep on Cloud's Counterstance. You get it late in the game, but it's incredibly helpful. It activates almost instantly even if you're attacking, does WAY more damage than Cloud's standard Punisher counter, and, perhaps most importantly, activates with *any* kind of damage. The Punisher counter only triggers with physical attacks, but Counterstance will activate with physical, magic, firearms, etc. There are a lot of really damaging moves that Cloud can tank via Counterstance; even moves that are otherwise unblockable.

[@marcdavey1009]

ty man the multiple healing out of combat by holding l1 was huuge i was getting so annoyed manually duin it all over and over. having a rough time with camera angles tho cos when i go to change it it also changes my lockon target its so stupid

[@visceralization]

Tifa's weapon ability "Chi Trap" is incredibly useful. It can even be used to cheese a boss fight with everyone's favorite Turks 😉

[@brianpayne4549]

I bought several (4 or 5) heal materia, and placed them all into my equipment. I leveled several materia up at the same time, and gave them to everybody else in my party to use.

[@TuberTugger]

First strike + atb assist on tifa. As quickly as possible double strength and give the rest of your team a bar each. If you have tifa + aerith, have aeith use ATB ward during boss fights and have tifa roll into the ward for double strength.

[@erikjernstedt555]

It really would have been nice if they had created a feature to set up the AI control for your companions (and main when you switch out) so that they use abilities/spells on their own even just some of the time.

[@Loki087]

There's a materia that you can give them to have them cast a spell after you use an ability

[@mastermold10]

actualy useing 'any' atb abilities other then magic increases tifa's chi a bit, just unbridaled strength increases it one full level so your rather encouraged to combo chain with her, much like how her limit break would work

[@NarpytheCrimeDog]

Biggest tip: Just use Tifa. If you suck bad enough to start losing with Tifa, just cast haste on her for God Mode.

[@BingBangPoe]

Cloud makes normal combat trivial once he learns Counterstance, though. It deals so much damage.

[@sephiroth1985102514]

They've renamed the Scan materia to Assess, and you can get it earlier in the game. Could be useful, but I already didn't use it much in the original. I only ever picked it up when I was trying to get ALL of the materia in the game.

[@tonkatunk]

Cloud's Punisher has a block, but it is specific to melee only, which will trigger a counter. Tifa, you should note she builds stagger damage with her Chi attacks. Rise and Fall as well as Uppercut both are 5% per hit, but Rise and Fall has multiple hits. Omnistrike is either 20 or 25% though. Staying in the 3rd level is good for normal combat, enhance damage and combo length, also alter some skills. When the enemy is staggered you should make your priority to be executing not only RIse and Fall, to put you back down to Chi 2, but immediately do Omnistrike. Omnistrike is much faster than Rise and Fall, meaning you can actually build the stagger damage faster through it. Most enemies though, after you use Omni, you want to rush in to get your actual damage skills off from all your characters, rather than spamming Rise and Fall. Just pay attention to enemy stagger gauge consumption to see what you should be doing though. Tips for Barrett, he's probably the most versatile character, don't be afraid to have an HP Up and Steadfast Guard on him and try out Refocus for some of the tougher fights. Now, your goal is going to be to stay using him as much as possible, don't switch unless absolutely necessary. Regen and Barrier will help survivability, anyone can cast those via materia, and I believe Barrett's Lifesaver also gives him additional regen. Now, your Limit should build fairly well if you're not fighting trash enemies like wererats, Hedgehog Pies, or something. Basic tip, most enemies hit you then have a cool down period before they attack again, often times it is relatively short, but this means if they hit you and you dodge/block, you often times have time to unload a full round into them with Barrett's gun. If you have under 2/3 ATB filled, follow up with Overcharge, then any of his Offensive Skills since you should be at 2 ATB. During the reloading animation of Barrett's attacks, make sure to do the charging action to build up Overcharge again. If you're not using a gun that specializes in magic, this should be a high burst combo. Since Barrett's skills scale with ATB gauge as well, having a third ATB via Refocus should be a noticeable difference. The tanky stuff/buffs applied to him will allow you to face tank one or two enemies during the combo if you're at near full health, which also aids in building your Limit of course. After your first playthrough, this may not be as viable however.

[@rockandrollgasstation963]

here's a freakin tip: if you check the first 2 vents in the air duct in shinra hq, you can't get out of that zoomed in view and you are stuck. you have to go back to the title screen. so save before that mission, and ignore those first 2 vents lol

[@Drakonant]

wrong, you can back up and chose the other way, but the game is super buggy with this and takes a long time, i understand how you may think you are stuck but you can get out, just takes time....annoying.

[@vvvvvvvv180]

Bosses have unique items you can steal so equipt steal with the luck up materia

[@TuberTugger]

There is really only one boss worth stealing from. Everything else is not super important. Also, if you are going to steal, you don't need luck up. Just do it when they're staggered. Basically guarantees a successful steal.

[@dallynfr]

Hey Caedo, I'm Getting My New PlayStation In A Few Hours And I'd Like To Ask A Question, What Fallout 4 Build Should I Do? Sorry For Commenting This On A Final Fantasy Video

[@CaedoGenesis]

@Kai Kapukui I AGREE!

[@dallynfr]

@@CaedoGenesis Thank You

[@dallynfr]

@Kai Kapukui Thanks

[@Maikeru101]

ImDallyn don’t play fallout 4, you’re not missing out on anything with it. It’s a failed game

[@nemisisx1]

Blue, yellow and purple materia are limited when found in the world. For example the Pedometer Materia that turns into the AP UP materia, can not be reacquired over and over in chapter 14, neither can the elemental materia. These will turn into Green Materia typically, and if it can be found in the world multiple times, it can also be bought from a materia vendor so there's not really a point to playing to find them when you're already beating the game and have gil out the wazoo

[@NathanCundiff]

Keep in mind Hard mode is strategy not so much hard, it's find the right materia and battle rythm

[@dracosilvainus9344]

MOOGLE MEDALS GATHERING MADE EASY We all know the crates have a random drop, now you can save before smashing every set and reload until you get them or ... Save some time here : In chapter 6 while turning off the sun lamps there's a catwalk that moves both vertical and horizontal. Move it all the way up and then to the right. Knock off the crates and move it back to the left of where they were placed. Smash crates save and reload then repeat. There's a 95-98% chance you'll get a Moogle Medal as well as lots of goodies and a chance to get 2 Medals plus goodies. Spend some time here before moving on and the exchange later will be simple.

[@Kash71653]

How do you go to the menu straight out of a cutscene before a battle?

[@ericwashington8403]

Holding the square button

[@vincevirtua]

Prioritise levelling materia: HP Up, MP Up and Magic Up from as soon as you can as they're amazing level and power boosters that'll help a lot in hard mode as you won;'t be able to use any items for whole chapters.

[@mastermold10]

tips? USE PUNISHER MODE! and USE THE TACTICLE SLOW DOWN even if you dont have a charge built up opening hte menu slows time allowing you to take a moment to plan moves

[@mizulightblue]

It took me 70 hours to figure out how the speciality in weapons work and that there are some "quests" that I need to do with this weapon to gain the ability. I feel so stupid. Now I'm at 77 hours and just noticed how to do shortcuts in battle. Also took me about 50 hours to notice that you can actually flee from fights.

[@commonpants5617]

Still doing the goofy name thing. In that case Condor Gymnastics

[@adrian_orange]

And when you are playing cloud learn how to counter that is the most important skills he has Play Final Fantasy VII remake for a solid 150 hours so my biggest suggestion to everyone is to first learn in How teamwork works Second suggestion is to Know Your Enemy weak point and that will help you a lot even in the second playthrough :)

[@tatsuo71]

Learn every ability from every weapon and it will be part of ability list.

[@LegoLad01]

You actually can't heal all at once in default outside of battles...you need the special materia for that

[@masonharding7428]

Hmm stagger mechanics, dare I say final fantasy 13

[@AlexandrovitchA]

Are we gonna get other characters or is the whole story gonna be played with these 4?

[@chadmarsh5356]

I'll take it you haven't played the original and just say there are 2 more main characters and 2 that you were able to unlock in the original. That's aside from Red XIII who will be playable in the next game I'm sure. Then there is also a character very important to the story that they may or may not make playable during his part. So yes there will definitely be more characters to play with.

[@Loki087]

It's only these 4, square enix decided not to let red XIII be playable because he's introduced late and they felt like it would be doing the character a disservice acquiring him late in the game. For the next installments there should be plenty more playable characters.

[@orome9793]

It wasn't until after I beat the game on normal that I realized I could slide down ladders.

[@kulikevl5312]

Wow...how did you not figure these things out during the first run thru? Were you just trying to race to beat the game?

[@GGSaint]

I got the game yesterday (12/25/20) and I came here to learn more and to do better while playing... I’ll come back with the strategies and tips that I’ve learn!!

[@darrylnorton4904]

In perhaps the most extreme example of patience I've ever displayed, I got the game at launch but waited until I got my PS5 to play it. My holiday break/winter has never been sweeter lol. Real shit tho, his tips are solid. Sucks that you gotta tweak so many settings to achieve optimal gameplay, but it's more than worth it.

[@GamingEnjoyer13]

Learn to mix it up. Yes, it's great to use the character you like the most and use their combos, but trust me, it's better if you like your whole party, gear it up to what you want and learn to go back and forth between them to: Charge their ATB bars faster, control what they'll do, put them out of danger (sometimes the AI won't make them dodge or move out of harm's way). That way you can make your fights easier and faster with all your characters working in unison instead of hoping the AI will know what you want it to do.

[@JShepLord]

USE REFOCUS MATERIA ON YOUR HEALER. YOU'RE WELCOME.

[@raulrojas9253]

Number 15 Hard mode doesnt allow you to use Items like NEVER even outside of fights, so dont be afraid to use all your items on normal mode. 16 Limit break can Be miss, I am not kidding enemies can Dodge them and you can die during a limit break.

[@SashaChopper]

A Very Angry Guy I deem the item feature pretty dumb.. it makes gils useless in hard mode and also the item materia. bad design choice imo

[@hiroakihanyu]

@@SashaChopper i agree, at least outside the fight it should be allowed to use

[@andrzejwysocki609]

ai party members: *randomly blocks for most of the fight for no reason*

[@EbuCallinav]

If only there was a Materia that capitalizes on party members blocking.

[@TBANinjaAbe]

dont spam roll your atb meter doesnt fill while in you dodge try walking to avoid instead

[@YYorle]

WHAT IS THIS MULTI-USE UI-MAGIC YOU'VE HELD ME OUT ON!?!?! NOMURA!!!! EXPLAIN!!!!! xD

[@sasukelover2561]

My dumb ass keep missing materia lol

[@SykoEsquire]

So basically, everything you wish you knew could have been anticipated had you played FFXV. The battle system is pretty similar.

[@Vza004]

The biggest difference is that there's no stupid friendly fire when using magic. Dumb AIs didn't change though.

[@DagothDaddy]

Number 1:That Jessie would be made best girl so I could prepare myself emotionally.

[@Yuffimara]

You say something like “press down on the Right stick” isn’t that called R3?

[@dc6012]

I disagree that stocking ATB is better than using it. First Strike + Disorder + Triple Slash will clear groups of enemies at once. It's only important to sit on ATB is during fights like Hell House when you have to wait for opportunities to exploit weaknesses. Hell House, Ghoul and Eligor are the only fights where you have to save ATB for specific times. Once you understand the technical advantages that abilities like Unbridled Strength, Tempest, Overcharge, Disorder and the Focused abilities do, it isn't even that important to save ATB for the stagger. Judging by the combat in your videos you don't seem to understand how some of the battle mechanics work. I'd say that's a pretty important thing to get right when you're making tutorial videos.

[@itszenil7928]

Dad

[@Mutation80]

Nuffin advanced here -_-

[@javibentue70]

What the fuck... are you kidding me? Hard mode is LOCKED??? Seriously, WHAT THE FUCK! I HATED that about RE4, I barely have time to play games and I like to play them on the hardest difficulty ALWAYS, so I don't have to replay it again. FML...

[@SubFlow22]

I wish I had known how terrible the combat system was. Waste of money.

[@wolfee3607]

Wot I wish I knew that they ruined my most favorite games...This game is trash...I knew wot game not to buy whenever the hell that maybe....

[@wolfee3607]

anthony rubio No I just know a good FF game from a bad FF game. Lmao, sorry u didn’t come from a good home and I will pray for you!

[@stwida91]

You first "tip/trick" is literally just talking about what the ATB gauge does....???? Someone needs to pad their content for that KZbin ad revenue...

[@CaedoGenesis]

Sure is, more tips are on the way too. Got any hard mode advice?

[@michaelmorton8152]

Final Fantasy 7 remake is worse then Final Fantasy 15 and I thought 15 was b*******

[@sergiosilva6829]

took me 58 hours to complete the game, loved every 57 hours... the last hour... so disappointing... this was worse than "finishing this fight" in halo 2. God square, you just had to put ff7 in todays graphics but no... will we even get the open world ? the ship ? Cid ? So so disappointed

[@michaelmorton8152]

All I know is this Final Fantasy 7 remake ruined Final Fantasy 7 for me I think it's the worst Final Fantasy game ever now

[@chrislevack405]

Thank god your opinion means nothing.

[@araung21]

So this game being the only final fantasy I’m currently playing which ones are the best you can recommend ?

[@ThisAdventureFamily]

Enjoyed watching . Nice content