After you hop off the train, check the closest gaurd twice (with O button) for two potions. Run after the rest of the team that hopped off the train, and two soldiers in blue will come out and fight you. You have a Lightning and an Ice materia. You are at level 6. One hit apiece, should kill the soldiers. Then continue after the group. Talk to Biggs and then follow them through the buildings. Barret will come and talk to you, then team up with you. Talk to the person closest to the pink buttons on the wall to procede. Ride the elevator down. Follow Jessie. Be sure to grab the shiny object with the O button. It's a potion. Go down the ladders. The enemies you'll face in this part of the game are relativly weak, and easy to kill. Don't waste your magic with spells, though. You'll need it for your first boss. When you see a question mark, step on it and access the menu with the triangle button, and go sown to Save. Save your game often. You never know what can happen. Grab the odd rock object. This is Restore Materia. You can't equip it yet. Run forward untill Barret comes out and you set the bomb. Say hello to your first boss.
This scorpian-like robot is fairly easy. Use spells like Bolt and Ice, and Limit Breaks, too. When it raises its tail, don't attack! If you do, it will unleash a laser that can do 100 or so points of damage to both of you. You'll get a new gun for Barret. But you have ten minutes to get out of there. That should be no problem. Run back out the way you came. Talk to Jessie as you come to the spot where she waiting, to help her. Then continue running out. After the explosion, follow Barret up the stairs. The flower girl that comes up to you, Aeris, will ask you to buy a flower. You don't have to, but it is only a gil...Follow her out of that screen. Head south, taking the potion on the left side of the screen, untill some soldiers stop you. You can either fight them, or run from them. Either way, you'll soon jump onto the passing train.
The scene cuts to inside the train, where the AVALANCHE team is. After all the talking, follow them into the next car. Talk to Jessie, then to Barret. Once off of the train, follow everyone to Tifa's bar. You'll need to talk to Barret in order to get in. When you try to leave, Barret comes in. When Barret asks for you to explain materia to him, say yes. It is a short tutorial on how materia works. Go outside and into the small building at the bottom of the screen. This store sells items such as Potions, antidotes, and Phoenix Downs. You can also buy a Fire materia. In the bigger building you can buy some different items. Go up the steps to the next story and get the All materia, and an ether.
Go back to the train station and go back into the train. Soon red lights will flash and you'll have to run up the train cars. This isn't too difficult. Once you jump off the train, go north and check the left little panel. Go down in the hole, and head west. Go up the ladder where Wedge is. And then down the ladder near Jessie. And then up the ladder near Biggs. Go down the slide to find that this reactor is alot like the one before. You should be able to find your way to where Cloud has his first flashback. Set the bomb and run back out, just like before. Save all of your limit breaks for the coming up boss. It'll take a few minutes to push all of the buttons at the same time.
Airbuster: Boss. 1200HP/0MP. This guy can do some big damage to you, so you need your Restore materia linked to All. But Barret and Tifa will be seperated from Cloud. Remember that Lightning usually works well against all machines. And limit breaks are good, too.
After you beat the boss, Cloud will fall into a church below. Here, Aeris will join you. This is also where you first meet Reno, but you don't fight him. His soldiers come after Aeris. Go up to the rafters and you can save some time by pushing the barrels down on the soldier threatening Aeris. The order is back-left, front-right, and back-right. Then you can run through the hole in the church roof. Head North-West, North, and East. Take the item and materia in the garden and go in the house. When you sneak out the first time, you'll get caught. Next time, walk around (close to the wall) the stairs, and walk all the down. Go back, through the small town, and go west. Aeris will be waiting for you. The enemies in Sector Six are harder than what you've come across, so far. Go up the ramp, across the metal thing, down the pink ramp, through the tunnel, up another ramp, and down a final one. From there just follow Tifa (who was in the wagon) into Wall Market.
Go up a screen, into the tent-like place. Talk to the guy twice. Then run down a screen, the Clothes Shop is the first on the left. Talk the girl inside, then go up a screen, into the bar on the left. Talk to the right-most guy and decide how you want your dress to be. Then go back to the Clothes Shop and try on the dress. Then go up, into the gym, and do squats to get the blonde wig. The guy usually does 13, or so. Go to the clothes shop to change, then go into Don's mansion. Run upstairs and down the left-most door. Meet Tifa, grab the ether, then go into the big double doors, where the guy instructs you to go. You will be led to a room full of men. Be sure to take the Phoenix Down, and talk to guys untill the guy at the back of the room says something other than "leer......snicker...."
The first three men to fight you are real easy. The next three are a little tougher. After you beat them, run to the room where you met Tifa. Then go into Don's room. No matter what, you will fall down, into the sewer. Then Apps comes. Apps is pretty easy. His main attack is Sewer Tsunami, and most of the time it hits him first. So use Aeris' Healing Wind when you can, and other limit breaks. Take all of the items you see. Once you're in the train graveyard, go through the first car, and press O by the oil barrel. Then climb the ladder to the top of the car. Go down and check the other barrel. Go around and through the car. Go up the ladder, then back down. Go through the car, (get the potion, of course) and go north. Hop in the first engine, then into the other. Climb to the top of the car, then over to the engine. Go left.
Going up the pillar, try to save your limit breaks. All the enemies are the same.
Boss: Reno. 1000HP 0MP. You can't kill Reno. You can only hurt him, and then make him leave. He has a powerfull Electro-mag rod attack. Beware the little Pyramids he uses to trap characters. Attack the character to break him/her out of it. Don't get all 3 caught, because then you're dead.....
The next time you're able to control Cloud, after swinging out from under the plate, start to head through Sector Six. Then go back and take the Sense materia. Then leave. Go to Aeris' house. After the long flashback sequence, go all the way back to Wall Market and into the Machine Gun place. Talk to the man on the tank and buy the batteries. Then go up to Corneo's place and follow the kids to the (the game says wire, I think it looks more like a cable). Climb up. Go around to plug in the first battery. Then climb up, across the propeller. Go up and left to plug in the next battery. Go up. To land on the swinging pole, wait untill the squeak stops, or just untill it stops to swing the other way. Climb up, then back down to plug in the last battery. Climb down and jump on the pole again. Then go all the way up.
When you reach the headquarters building, you can either go left and climb up the stairs. (It takes, like, ten minutes.) Or fight your way in.
If you're running up:
Have fun. (Yeah right...)
If you're fighting your way in:
Fight your way up all the stairs. Soon the elevator will go crazy and you'll have to stop it a few times and fight. Then go out and right. Fight the gaurds to get the keycard to level 60. Go in the elevator and go up to that floor. Go into the left room.
Run past the gaurds, ffrom statue to statue, when they move. This is really hard. Once you get across, you have to signal your friends across. The gaurds on the right move faster then the left. If you get caught, you have to fight the gaurds and start all over!! On the next floor you need to talk to
guy walking right and answer ...... to get the next keycard. The next floor is confusing. Talk to the guy in the left room. Then run back out and read the plaque on the wall by a library. Remember it, then go inside that library. Read each of the titles and remember the first letter of the one that doesn't
belong. Once you've done this with all four libraries, talk to the mayor again and pick the word that has the most letters like the ones you found. It's different each game. If you get right on the first try you'll get an Elemental materia.
I hate this next room. Talk to the computer. You can open up to three doors. (Of course, you can skip this one. You'll only get a few items.) Take the coupons and exchange them at the computer to get a few items, then move on. On the next floor, you can rest and save, and make Cloud run on a treadmill. You can also check the lockers for items. The next floor has enemies on it. Find the unlocked chest and run into the center room to place the Midgar parts and unlock another chest. Eventually you'll get the next keycard. Go in the bathroom stall in the top-left corner of the floor and go up.
After spying on Shinra, follow Hojo up. After Cloud looks at the monster in the purple room, and gets another headache, run through the crates to an elevator, save point, and poison materia. Go in the elevator. Choose either Barret or Tifa to take care of Aeris and fight the next boss.
HO512: Boss. HP1000 MP120. The two keys to this battle is not to attack the little bugs in front of the ugly creature. Focus on him. And don't use Bio on him, it'll only heal him. If you have Tifa with you, you can't control who she hits with her limit break. Fire works well on H0512.
You then need to go down to 66th floor elevator. Go in one and try to use it, and Rude (a Turk) will show up with Tseng and capture you. Once you are in your cell, run to the door and get a choice of who you want to talk to. You need to, eventually, get some sleep. When you wake up, the door will be open. Run outside and check the gaurd. Then go wake up Tifa. Go left and follow the blood trail. Once you find the president dead, run outside and meet Rufus, the president's son. Everyone will leave Cloud alone to battle Rufus. Go down and left to the elevator. Now you meet two bosses right behind each other.
Hundred Gunner. HP1600 MP0. (Keep in mind that all machines are weak to lightning.) And only Barret can regular attack this guy. Red and Aeris have to either use magic or limit breaks.
Heligunner. HP1000 MP0. The same principles apply to this guy.
Rufus: HP500 MP0. Dark Nation: HP140 MP0.After the elevator battle it skips to Cloud and Rufus. The first thing you need to do in this battle is to kill the Dark Nation. It can cast Barrier and MBarrier. Then use Bio on Rufus and try to keep your HP up. The poison will slowly kill him. You can also use other spells to speed up the damage. Cloud's limit break, Cross-Slash, will also stop Rufus.
Now go back inside and down to meet with Tifa. (Saving would be a good idea. Do this before you meet with Tifa.) Time for the motorcycle game. If you're sane, you'll be like me and absolutly hate this part. Your friends are in a strange, three-wheeled car, and you have to protect them from the other motorcycles. You can get hurt, and it will stay that way when the boss comes.
Motor Ball. HP2600 MP120. At the end of the road on the motorcycle game, Motor Ball will come and fight you. Aeris' Healing Wind and the Restore-All combo are good to have in this battle. He can do 200-300 damage to everyone at once. Use lightning and limit breaks as often as you can.
Once you are out of Midgar, head Northeast to a little blip on the map. This is Kalm.
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