Carbon Ocelot's Final Fantasy VII Walkthrough

Disc 3

Cavern
Did any of your materia level up during the last battle? If so, you probably want to think about swapping them out now. You're welcome. :) Also, don't feel like you're stuck here. While traveling in the overworld, You can press "cancel" while over the northern crater to decend the Highwind into the cavern.

Take the ladder down (don't worry, you can get back up). Head down and left. On the next screen, Cloud will complain that "we can only slide down". That's OK. Just select "Alright, let's go" (don't worry - you can get back.) When you have control again, the box past the cave has a Save Crystal in it. If at any point you want to return to the Highwind and do other stuff, you can take the cave here to a smaller cave on the previous screen. Once you emerge from that cave, walk (don't run) to the right and examine the path next to the cave. It's not marked with a green pointer, but it's a ladder that will lead you up. Go up from there to get back to the highwind. FYI, doing pretty much anything else on that screen will cause you to slide down to the screen where you found the Save Crystal , and you'll have to go back into the cave and try again.

Ok. So the thing about this area is this - there are three paths that all lead down to a spot where the rest of your characters will be waiting. That's where you're going to fight a major battle. As you go down a path, it may become impossible to go back up the way you went. I'll tell you where the various paths down branch off, and where you can get back up from each.

Enemies:

Gargoyl: While going around the spiral here you may find a gargoyle or two, it's an un-morphable two-stage enemy you can steal an X-Potion from. It will kill of any character that is at a level divisible by four. Luckily 99 isn't, so I'm OK. Anyway, hit the first stage of the gargoyle with anything at all (it's invulnerable until you hit it), then when it wakes up you can smack it around a bit. You can win an x- Potion from it. Frankly, I like to equip all my enemy away materia on this screen. You won't find any gargoyal enemies after you get to the bottom of this pit.

Dark Dragon: Steal a Dragon Armlet from him, then morph him into a Vaccine . If you manipulate him, you can learn enemy skills Dragon Force and laser.

Parasite: Steal a Remedy , then morph into a Remedy . Note that this guy can hit you with Sadness, so have a rememdy or Hyper handy. Better yet, equip everyone with a Ribbon accessory. Don't have three of those? Just read the next paragraph. :)

Master Tonberry: If you run across this guy here (small guy with floating star above his head) steal an Elixir and morph him. Even if you lose a guy or two, it's worth it to morph this guy. He turns into a Ribbon ! If you have Yuffie's Conformer and her morph does 9999 damage, it's possible to farm ribbons here. I'm not 100% sure why you'd want to, but I've validated that it *is* possible. If you "just" manage to kill them off, there's a possibility you'll get a Megalixir from them.

Sissors: You can steal an Ether from these guys. I'm pretty sure you don't need them by this point, but I figured I'd tell you anyway.

Armored golem: You can steal a Turbo Ether from these guys and morph them into a Guard Source !

Mover: These show up in groups of three. Are you using Yuffie's Conformer weapon with Sneak Attack and Morph? That's great! These guys can be morphed into a Protect Ring and will give you 800 AP each. In other words, you'll get a total of 2400 AP just because you ran into them. That'll level up your Knights of the Round materia somewhat more quickly that you were probably expecting.

For now, avoid the cave and head left. You'll jump across the ledge and go counter clockwise in a spirla aroud and around and around - down to the bottom. On the way, stop off at the box and get the Guard Source . When you get to the bottom of the cave, you'll be on a screen with a bunch of switch backs.

1. Head left and jump down to the next level.
2. Go left and climb up the ledge at the end; open the box for a Power Source . Head all the way right and get the HP absorb materia.
3. Go back and jump down to the previous ledge.
4. Go right on the next level open the box for an Elixir .
5. Wind your way right-left-right and down to the next level with a box; open for a Magic Source .
6. Go down one more level and right; at the end go up the other ledge.
7. Climb all the way back up to the top and go down the other side.
8. The first box this way has a Guard Source .
9. The second box has a Mind Source .

1. Head slightly left to jump down to the first level.
2. Go into the cave on the far left. Head down and right into the hidden cave looking thing, then come out above.
3. The chest here has a Power Source .
4. Toward the bottom is another chest with a Guard Source .
5. Exit the cave using the bottom exit.
6. Go right and open the chest there for a Hero Drink .
7. Go back into the cave and go to the top.
8. Exit the cave and go right until you fall down.
9. On that level, walk left until you get to a chest; open it for Mind Source .
10. Walk right and jump up to the previous level.
11. Walk left and jump down to the next level, the go into the cave on the right.
12. There's a Megalixir here.
13. Go out; jump back then walk right.
14. Go down twice and use the loop-around cave to get to the next level.
15. Walk left and jump down, then right and jump down, then left and jump down twice.
16. Finally, go right and you'll be at the next area.

I'll pause here for a second. You're going to split your party, and depending on which directions folks go, they'll end up possibly picking up something to share with you when you reach the bottom of this area. If you stop before getting to the bottom of the area, you can backtrack through where they went and pick up those items, thus effectively getting the same item twice. If you go with people who go left, you can then direct them to go up or down, which determins what they'll find. But if you go right and send the rest of the folks left, you can end up with more loot.

Of all the items you can find here, I think the mega all material is the one I'd like to get two of. To make SURE you get it, head left with Vincent and then tell him to go Down while you go up. Then after you've gone through the rest of the area, backtrack through the place he went down and grab the mega all materia. Since I'm playing on an emulator, I like to take a snapshot before splitting the party, and another before getting to the very bottom of the crater and seeing what people have. That's what the dialog from here will show. If you want to force a charater to get a particular cool item (I'll skip the easily obtained items), here's the direction to send various folks. Note that sending them two directions means you have to go with them.

• Tifa, right = Mystile
• Yuffie, right = Megalixir
• Red XIII, Right first, then Up = shield materia
• Yuffie, Right first, then Up = counter materia
• Cid, Right first, then Up = Imperial Guard
• Vincent, Left first, then Down = mega all materia

Continuing on... Head right and climb down the icicle things. When you join the rest of the party, you'll have to make a decision who goes where. I took Cloud, Yuffie, and Cid as my party and went right. I sent the rest left.

On the next screen, wind down the spiral until you get to the next screen, then head right and go down. The box here has a Mystile , and the Potion there is an Elixir . Continue spiraling down until you get to the next screen. The obvious box here has a Speed Source . Head down and slightly right to find another box with the marginally useful Tetra Elemental . Head back up and left, then go right toward the top of the screen. The box up here has a Megalixir . Continue up to the next screen.

This one is a little tricky. You're going wind down the spiral again, but this time the spiral changes direction part way down. When you get to the next screen, you head right and you should see an exit here, with a box a little past that. The box contains a Luck Source . Grab that, then head through the exit you just passed.

On this next screen, you should see two boxes, between which is a floating materia kind of hidden by a waterfall thing. Grab the box on the right to obtain a Turbo Ether , then head left to jump down. Go up toward the platform and Cloud will jump to that platform, then immediately jump left. While he's jumping, if you time it right you can use the circle button to grab the mega all materia. If you miss it, just keep jumping back and forth until you get it. If you have Yuffie's Conformer and are morphing enemies, be sure you juntion this mega all materia to her. That way she'll morph ALL enemies she runs across - not just one. This will be super handy as you continue to level grind stat up items. The box here on the left has a Speed Source. Once you have all these items, head right and follow the path to a box with an X-Potion . Grab that, then head out the exit at the top of the screen.

On the next screen, follow the path to the left, then curve around to the right, behind the platform in the middle. There's a box here with a Vaccine . Continue down and back right to open the box there for a Turbo Ether . Once you have that, backtrack a few steps the jump up and climb up the pillar in the middle. Exit the screen via the upper left path.

Follow the path on the next screen and pickup the X-Potion in the first box, then the Remedy in the next. Head right and jump down, then jump/climb to your upper right to get the final box with an Elixir . Jump back down and head left, then exit via the screen by jumping up on the pillars to your upper left. You should now be on a mostly green screen with an exit jump up from your current position. Take that exit (if you go past it, there's an exit that takes you back where your part split.)

OK. The screen you should be on now has roots and puddles. This is one of my favorite places in the game to level up. If you run across a Magic Pot, be sure not to attack it. Instead, give it an Elixir , and THEN attack it. If you attack before giving it an Elixir , it will steal something from you. Killing two of these Magic Pot enemies will net you 16k exp and 2k AP. That translates to 6000 AP for any materia in a tripple growth slot! While leveling up here, it's best if you don't have any sneak attack materia junctioned. Anyway, jump down and head right, then open the chest for a Speed Source . Once you have that, backtrack and head up to jump to the next area. Head to the top right and you'll swim to the next area. The box to your upper left has a Remedy . Grab that and exit via the upper right corner of this area.

The next screen has more roots and ponds. This time head up first and open the box in the upper left of the screen for a Vaccine . Then head right and grab the shield materia. From there, head down and left; cloud should jump in the water and swim to the next area. Open the box there for an Imperial Guard . Head down and left and cloud should swim to the final part of this screen. Before going out the exit, backtrack left and down, then open the box on the right for a Hero Drink . Now you can go back to that exit in the top right of the screen.

This last screen has two materia which are kind of hard to see. The first is partially hidden by some branches at the top of the screen. That's the somewhat handy Wmagic materia. Circle to the around the bright thing in the middle of the screen. When you get to the right spot, you can head down into the mako stream. There's a counter materia hidden in the lights. When you have both of these, exit via the top left corner of the screen.

You should now be back on a familar screen with a green pool in middle and a stairway off on the left. If you're on an emulator and gambling with Vincent having picked up another mega all materia, take a snapshot before going any farther. Head left and you'll join your team again. Talk to everyone who wasn't in your party to see what they picked up along the way. Again, the way I play it, 50% of the time Vincent will give you a marginally useful Magic Source . But the other 50% of the time you'll get the way more useful second mega all materia.

STOP - READ THIS! At this point you can continue on and beat the game, or more likely you'll want to backtrack to the beginning of the crater and jump back on the highwind to go level up more, try to beat all the Weapons, etc. Now that I have the shield materia (the final magic materia for a Huge Materia blend) and the extremely helpful mega all materia, I like to go farm Guard Source items near Mideal and then come back here and farm magic pots to level up to the best materia. See the level up section for more detail.

When you're *TOTALLY* done and ready to move on...

Back to the End of the World:
OK. Now that you have pretty much beat everything there is to beat, head back to the crater and decend to the bottom. When you get to the screen where you first met up with all your party, make sure to create a save point using the Save Crystal . After that point, you'll have to jump from time to time by pressing the "accept" or "OK" buttons. Go in a spiral pattern around the outside left until you get to the center of the floating square thing. Anyway, as long as you have KOR at this point, it's a total cake walk. When Jenova shows up, w-summon KOR. After you beat Jenova, you'll fall down a long drop, and then you'll see a "Li....ght." I guess it's a light, but whatever. Sephiroth will show up and get the group back together again, then you'll have to split your party into three groups. Since I spent so long leveling up Cloud, Tifa and Cid, I made them the party leaders. I had Cloud, Barret and Cait Sith. Tifa, Red XIII and Vincent and Cid and Yuffie. I made sure they had their best weapons, then Divy up your materia accordingly. You'll hear your people cheer you on, then you'll fight. One KOR and that was the end of it. He really is a pathetic wimp. Next he changed form, so I used a Megalixir to get another shot off, and KORx2'd him. After another Megalixir , I KORx2'd him again. He killed off my guys, so I had to bring them back, then use a w-summon of Hades/Phoenix to get back into action. That, oddly enough, killed him off. All that to say, three good guys will waste him. Screw using more then that. YMMV. At the end of the battle, you'll end up where I told you to make the save point. Thankfully, Cloud goes all mental and we are saved from reality by the sheer lack of understanding that is thrust upon us. At least we get a fun cut scene here. Ah yes. Sun, moon, stars, synapsis. It all makes sense... No actually, it doesn't. Let's kick Sephiroth's butt, shall we? Omnislash the heck out of him, yah? 9999xd6!!! Sorry... I had a bit of a homestarunner moment there.

End:
Watch the pretty lights. You'll get the LIFESTREAM lecture here. I'm not sure what the heck is up with Aeris, to be honest. Cloud grabs Tifa and let's get the heck out of here. OK I'm just joshing you. You can't do anything here. Just watch Cid curse and hang on for dear life. Various towns get nuked and you evetually see Meteor get replused (I think that's Marlene's eye's view your watching) and then Midgar gets munched. Eventually, you'll see that stupid thing that fell out of Aeris' hair start to work its magic. No wait, that's the lifestream. OK. I give up. I don't know what the heck is going on here. I'm just in it for the money/fame/glory. Yeah right. I wrote the whole frickin' walkthrough and what, 5 people maybe will read it. Heh heh. That's OK. I helped Cam. That's all I really care about. Heh heh. Oh. And Lewis. If you actually got here, you rock, dude!