Final Fantasy VII Remake Trophy Roadmap
- Estimated trophy difficulty: 6.5/10
- Approximate amount of time to platinum: 60-70 hours
- Offline Trophies: 54 (1
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- Number of missable trophies: 0 (there’s Chapter Select after the story, can go back everywhere)
- Glitched trophies: Nothing Yet
- Does difficulty affect trophies?: Yes, must beat the game on Hard Difficulty (unlocked after finishing the story on any difficulty)
- Minimum Playthroughs: 2 (Easy difficulty, Hard difficulty)
- Free-Roam / Level Select after Story?: Yes there is Chapter Select but there’s no traditional Free Roam (all Chapters are linear and disconnected from each other). You can go back everywhere and get all missing collectibles and trophies through Chapter Select. All your progress, equipment, collectibles and character level carries over into New Game Plus / Hard Mode.
- Release Date: April 10, 2020
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)Introduction
Welcome to the Final Fantasy 7 Remake Trophy Guide! This guide applies to both the Intergrade PS5 version & the original PS4 Remake version.
Final Fantasy VII Remake is the first part in a series of Remakes. It features the Midgar section of Final Fantasy VII but this has been vastly expanded with new activities and side quests. The platinum trophy basically wants you to gain 100% game completion. Except for Accessories, Armor, and Materia you must find all other collectibles and do all 26 side quests. A minimum of 2 playthroughs is needed. Beat the game once to unlock hard difficulty, then beat it again on hard. Nothing is missable because there’s Chapter Select functionality after the story, allowing you to go back everywhere. Note that if you platinum the PS4 version first you can sync your save to the PS5 Intergrade version (from title screen) and it will autopop all trophies including platinum.
Step 1: Easy Difficulty 100% Playthrough – Side Quests, Collectibles (Music Discs, Weapons, Johnny Incidents, 3 Dresses), Chapter-specific Trophies
For the first playthrough pick any difficulty (Easy is recommended, but it doesn’t matter). Hard difficulty is not available from the start, which means 2 playthroughs minimum. You unlock hard when beating the story on any difficulty. After finishing the story on any difficulty, you also unlock Chapter Select. So nothing is truly missable. You can go back everywhere. However, some chapters go on for 3 hours or more so if you miss something late into a chapter you would have to replay a lot of it. Since you need 2 playthroughs minimum (1 easy to unlock hard, 1 on hard), you can also get missing things on the hard playthrough.
Your main priorities should be getting all Side Quests, trophy-relevant collectibles (Music Discs, Weapons, Johnny Incidents, 3 of 9 Dresses) and the semi-missable Chapter-specific trophies. So basically a 100% completion playthrough.
- They get marked by a green icon on the map. There are 26 of them but you can only get 24 on the first playthrough. That’s because in Chapter 9 some quests cancel out each other. The missing 2 you must do via Chapter Select after the story. Refer to the Final Fantasy VII Remake Walkthrough & Side Quests for a list of all Side Missions, their locations and when they become available.
- In Chapter 9 go for the Side Quests The Party Never Stops & A Dynamite Body and NOT The Price of Thievery & Shears’ Counterattack. The reason being that The Party Never Stops counts as a Johnny Incident. Doing The Price of Thievery would lock you out of this quest so you’d miss the trophy for all Johnny Incidents. These quests are based on your Chapter 9 Choices. As soon as you reach the playground with Aerith in Chapter 9, make a manual save and follow the choices outlined in The Party Never Stops Requirements.
- On the World Map (Touchpad) you can press
to see a list of Side Quests in a given chapter. This way you know if you completed all before moving on. Side Quests are only in Chapter 3, 8, 9, 14.
- You only need 3 types for trophies. For an all in one guide that also lists optional item pickups (which you can ignore), refer to Final Fantasy VII Remake Collectible Guide.
- Music Discs are music being played by Merchants, Vending Machines and some NPCs. See Final Fantasy VII Remake All Music Disc Locations.
- Weapons are found in Chests, bought at shops and stolen from enemies. See Final Fantasy VII Remake All Weapon Locations.
- Johnny Incidents are 5 sequences to do with a character called Johnny (his side quests and discovery events). Make sure in Chapter 9 you go for Side Quest The Party Never Stops, it counts as a Johnny Incident and is semi-missable. See Final Fantasy VII Remake All Johnny Incident Locations.
- Dresses are based on what dress you tell Tifa to wear in the Discovery Event of Chapter 3 (Tifa Dress), how many Side Quests you do in Chapter 8 (Aerith Dress), and how many Side Quests you do in Chapter 9 (Cloud Dress). There are 9 dresses (3 per character) but you can only get 3 on the first playthrough! See Final Fantasy VII Remake How to Get All Dresses.
Make sure you complete all Side Quests in Chapter 3 to unlock a purple “Discovery Event” at your room. Do this event and tell Tifa to wear the Sporty or Exotic dress (2nd or 3rd dialogue choice)! DO NOT PICK THE MATURE DRESS! Your choice here decides what dress Tifa will wear in Chapter 9! The Mature dress is better reserved for your hard playthrough outlined in Step 3 (if you picked Mature, you’ll have to redo Chapter 3 Side Quests on Hard or replay Chapter 3 one more time via Chapter Select later). With Aerith you should get the Red Dress for having done all Side Quests in Chapter 8. With Cloud you should get the Black/Blue Dress for having done The Party Never Stops in Chapter 9.
“Semi-Missable” Chapter Trophies (can still get them via chapter select after story but this requires replaying the chapter):
- Chapter 3 – Heavenly Dart Player
- Chapter 4 – Biker Boy
- Chapter 6 – Cleanup Crew
- Chapter 7 – In Lockstep
- Chapter 8 – Crate Annihilator
- Chapter 9 – Sultan of Squat
- Chapter 9 – Dancing Queen
- Chapter 9 – Returning Champion
- Chapter 14 – Whack-a-Box Wunderkind
- Chapter 14 – Peeress of Pull-Ups
- Chapter 14 – Divine Gratitude
All of this may seem a bit much at first glance, but don’t worry! The game is very linear and basically everything is in plain sight. Nothing is super hidden and the semi-missable trophies are mostly tied to minigames. If you reach a minigame it will have a trophy for it (all minigames do). Just play thoroughly, get what you can and mop up the rest in chapter select or on your hard playthrough. Don’t worry about Battle Intel Reports or Enemy Skills just yet, those are better completed after the story.
Step 2: Chapter Select to Chapter 9 for the missing two Side Quests & grind XP / AP in Colosseum
After the story you get access to Chapter Select and Hard Difficulty. You also earn twice as much XP and three times as much AP in Chapter Select now.
Select Chapter 9 and do the two side quests you didn’t get on your first playthrough The Price of Thievery & Shears’ Counterattack. Assuming you did all other side quests on the first playthrough you will unlock the trophy for all quests now.
After this, jump to the Chapter 14 Colosseum for grinding out level 50 and maxing out all 12 Magic Materia (you need these for the Battle Intel Reports). Set the difficulty to Classic (in Game Options) so it plays the Colosseum for you without any button input. Doing this in the Chapter 14 Colosseum is faster (because here you have 3 party members to level up more Materia simultaneously) instead of Chapter 9 Colosseum (there you only have 2 characters so less effective for leveling Materia). Complete all your remaining Battle Intel Reports, there are 20 total. See Final Fantasy VII Remake All Battle Intel Reports & Final Fantasy VII Remake All Materia Locations.
Step 3: Hard Difficulty Playthrough, Hard exclusive Trophies, Next 3 Dresses
Use Chapter Select to replay all chapters on Hard difficulty ( 
> System > Chapter Selection). Everything carries over. All your equipment, character level etc. from your first playthrough is available from the start in Hard Mode, so it’s like a New Game Plus. However, you can’t use any items at all on Hard. Refer to trophy “Hardened Veteran” for tips and best character builds.
This time you’ll want to do a minimalistic playthrough and ignore all side quests and side activities. There are several Hard exclusive trophies because some enemies that are linked to trophies are only available on Hard – do these now: Master of Mimicry 
, That’s the Smell , Ultimate Weapon 
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MAKE SURE YOU SKIP ALL POSSIBLE SIDE QUESTS TO GET THE NEXT 3 DRESSES! By not doing the Chapter 3 Side Quests, you won’t get Tifa’s Discovery event and she’ll automatically be wearing the Mature dress. That’s why you weren’t supposed to pick it in Step 1. Not doing the Chapter 8 quests gives a new dress for Aerith and not doing Chapter 9 quests gives a new one for Cloud. That’s 6/9 dresses done after this playthrough. In Chapter 3 you’ll need to do 1 Side Quest to advance the story, it doesn’t matter which quest you do for this. All other Side Quests you can skip.
Step 4: The last 3 Dresses
All you should have left are the last 3 Bridal Dresses. Chapter Select to Chapter 3, pick your final Tifa option in her discovery event (Exotic or Sporty). Finish Chapter 3 and exit (make sure you play Chapter 3 to the end).
Use Chapter Select to skip ahead to Chapter 8, do 3/6 quests and finish the chapter to get Aerith’s last dress (it’s safe to skip Chapters 4-7, your choice will carry over to Chapter 9 automatically).
In Chapter 9 do the opposite quests you didn’t get on your first playthrough. Then continue playing to the end of Chapter 9 to unlock Cloud’s last dress.
If you missed a Dress refer to Final Fantasy VII Remake How to Get All Bridal Outfits (Dresses).
Useful Tips, Tricks, and Guides:
- Final Fantasy VII Remake Wiki & Strategy Guide
- Final Fantasy VII Remake Intermission (Yuffie) DLC Trophy Guide & Roadmap
- Final Fantasy VII Remake Walkthrough & Side Quests
- Final Fantasy VII Remake – Boss Guide (All Bosses)
- Final Fantasy VII Remake Hard Difficulty Guide, Tips & Tricks
- Final Fantasy VII Remake – All-in-One Collectible Guide
Final Fantasy VII Remake Trophy Guide
For DLC Trophy Guides see:
» Final Fantasy VII Remake Intermission (Yuffie) DLC Trophy Guide & Roadmap
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Master of Fate Earn all FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE trophies. |
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| Earn all other trophies in Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 1 to unlock Platinum (DLC and other VII Remake Parts not required). | ||
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Onetime Gig Complete Chapter 1. |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed – see Chapter 1 Walkthrough. | ||
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Escape Artist Complete Chapter 2. |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed – see Chapter 2 Walkthrough. | ||
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Mercenary Endeavors Complete Chapter 3. |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed – see Chapter 3 Walkthrough. | ||
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Night on the Town Complete Chapter 4. |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed – see Chapter 4 Walkthrough. | ||
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Plan E Complete Chapter 5. |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed – see Chapter 5 Walkthrough. | ||
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Lights Out Complete Chapter 6. |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed – see Chapter 6 Walkthrough. | ||
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Trapped like Sewer Rats Complete Chapter 7. |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed – see Chapter 7 Walkthrough. | ||
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Reunited Complete Chapter 8. |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed – see Chapter 8 Walkthrough. | ||
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Never the Bride Complete Chapter 9. |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed – see Chapter 9 Walkthrough. | ||
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Sewer Survivor Complete Chapter 10. |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed – see Chapter 10 Walkthrough. | ||
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Paranormal Investigator Complete Chapter 11. |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed – see Chapter 11 Walkthrough. | ||
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The Collapse Complete Chapter 12. |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed – see Chapter 12 Walkthrough. | ||
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Broken Dreams Complete Chapter 13. |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed – see Chapter 13 Walkthrough. | ||
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Picking Up the Pieces Complete Chapter 14. |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed – see Chapter 14 Walkthrough. | ||
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The Pizza in the Sky Complete Chapter 15. |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed – see Chapter 15 Walkthrough. | ||
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No Appointment Needed Complete Chapter 16. |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed – see Chapter 16 Walkthrough. | ||
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Emerging from Chaos Complete Chapter 17. |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed – see Chapter 17 Walkthrough. | ||
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Destiny’s Crossroads Complete Chapter 18. |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed – see Chapter 18 Walkthrough. | ||
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Warming Up Win a battle. |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed. This will be the first trophy you unlock, for defeating the first group of enemies at the start of the game. | ||
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Weakened Resolve Exploit an enemy’s weakness. |
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| You can view enemy’s weaknesses by using the Assess ability, automatically unlocked in Chapter 3. Once you use Assess, the weakness will be shown on a popup-screen in the top right corner. You can also look up weaknesses outside of battle by pressing (Main Menu) > Enemy Intel (the ones you used Assess on have a magnifier symbol). Enemies are weak against a certain status element (Fire, Ice, Thunder, Wind). Using the correct element will unlock the trophy.
For example, the weakness of the first Boss “Scorpion Sentinel” is Thunder. So you could use Barret’s Thunder Magic to get the trophy in the first mission. |
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Bonds of Friendship Free a bound ally. |
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Some enemies will occasionally bind your party members with unblockable attacks. If your character is bound and unable to act, quickly switch to a different character and attack. This will free the bound party member and unlock the trophy. For example, you can do this against the very first boss “Scorpion Sentinel”. When you stand in front of it, it will sometimes grab you and hold you in the air. Press  /  to switch to the other party member and attack before it finishes its grapple sequence. Odds are this will come naturally over the course of the game. |
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Staggering Start Stagger an enemy. |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed. When you attack an enemy enough times they will “stagger” (=getting stunned). You can do this as early as the first guard dog you encounter. Over the course of the story you will automatically stagger hundreds of enemies. | ||
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Music Collector Collect 3 music discs. |
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Gotta Start Somewhere Complete a quest. |
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My First Ability Max out a weapon’s proficiency. |
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To max out a weapon’s proficiency you must use its unique combat ability in battle many times. Each use levels up the proficiency. During combat, attack enemies with  to increase your ATB gauge. When you have at least 1 ATB bar, press  to open the Command Menu > Abilities > select weapon-specific ability. For example, Buster Sword = Focused Thrust, Iron Blade = Triple Slash.
To view which combat ability is tied to which weapon and what your proficiency is: press
» Final Fantasy 7 (VII) Remake – All Weapon Locations Note: it doesn’t count Cloud’s starting weapon “Buster Sword”. You can get it with his second obtained weapon “Iron Blade”. |
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Materia for Beginners Level up an orb of materia. |
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My First Summon Invoke a summon. |
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You unlock your first Summon (Ifrit) automatically in Chapter 3, cannot be missed. You will receive a tutorial prompt about this. Once you have it, equip it by pressing > Materia & Equipment > Select Character (e.g. Cloud) >  Materia > press  to select the Summons Slot (it’s the slot furthest right on your weapon). The summon can only be used during certain encounters such as bosses. The first opportunity is in Chapter 4 when you fight two Sweepers (big bipedal robots). You’ll get another tutorial for it then and a purple bar will charge up on the right side of the screen. Once the purple bar is filled, press to open the Command Menu and select Summons at the bottom. The trophy pops instantly when selecting this option.
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Biker Boy Get praised by Jessie at the end of the motorcycle mini-game. |
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Chapter 4 / Motorcycle Mini-Game (very start of chapter) This trophy is based either on how much health you finish the Bike Sequence with (at least 80%) or on how many attacks you get hit with that slow you down (soldier’s thrown bombs, drone’s shock, Roche’s electricity on floor). You can only get hit by 2 of those attacks that make you slow down. If you get hit a 3rd time Jessie says “Hit the breaks if you cannot avoid attacks” which voids the trophy. Just try not to get hit and not taking damage. This is best done on easy difficulty. The Bike Sequence takes place at the very start of the chapter and lasts around 10 minutes. First you drive in a tunnel where some enemies on bikes and drones will attack you. You can accelerate with After you exit the tunnel you will be chased by Roche, the Bike Boss in this mini-game. He is the only tricky part and on the first playthrough you will likely get hit a lot by him and miss the trophy because of that. He switches between a flurry of multiple ranged attacks (block with On the first playthrough of the chapter you will probably miss this trophy. Either keep a Save Game at the end of Chapter 3 so you can reload and repeat immediately, or do it via Chapter Select after the story. |
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Heavenly Dart Player Rise to the top of the Seventh Heaven darts leaderboard. |
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Chapter 3 / Objective: Talking Strategy / Area: Residential Area After you rescued Johnny in Chapter 3 you will go back to Seventh Heaven Bar with Tifa. At this point the story objective forces you to use the Darts Minigame to pass time. This is where you can get the trophy. If you missed this you can replay Chapter 3 via Chapter Select after the story (you also come back to the bar once more in Chapter 4). To beat the leaderboard highscore you must win the Darts Minigame in 7 throws or less (6 throws being the bare minimum possible). The record is 8. Getting it in 8 throws won’t unlock the trophy, it has to be 7 to beat the leaderboard. You need to clear 301 points total to win. The easiest method is to make 5 throws in the bullseye (5 x 50 = 250 points), 1 throw in T17 (3 x 17 = 51 points). This way you can finish in 6 darts, allowing you to mess up 1 throw and still get it in 7 total. You don’t even need to hit the red center of the bullseye, hitting the green ring around it still gives 50 points. On each throw the cursor will be shaking. Put the cursor over the bullseye and steer against the cursor shake (so if you notice the cursor pulling to the right you very slightly pull left to keep it centered). When the cursor narrows down to a yellow circle you make your throw – it will hit exactly where you’re aiming. So basically you need to get 2 things right: balance the cursor wobble and have perfect timing. You only have 2 opportunities per dart to have a perfectly narrow cursor. Always throw on the 2nd opportunity. It’s better to ignore the 1st opportunity and balance out the cursor wobble instead to make it stay in the center. If you mess up you can pause and quit the minigame immediately to retry it. You don’t need to finish it every time, that would only waste time. It takes quite a lot of practice but you can retry as often as you want. |
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Cleanup Crew Obtain the Chocobo & Moogle materia. |
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Chapter 6 / Objective: Power for the Platform / Area: Plate Mid Level (Section H Utility Access) In Chapter 6 when you climb past the wall with big fans that blow out air, Tifa will make a comment that she spotted something behind one of the fans and a purple “Discovery” icon is added on the map. You won’t be able to reach this right away. After you return from turning off all 3 Sun Lamps you are supposed to use the big cargo elevator. But instead of doing so, head west from the cargo elevator to find a smaller elevator (direction where you had to climb past some fans that blow out air). These two screenshots show the elevator location:
Use the small elevator and it will take you to the side where the fans are. In the first room there you find green control panel. Activate it to trigger a 1 minute timer. You now have only 60 seconds to defeat all enemies in the next room and must hit the green panel by the exit when done. This leads you behind one of the fans where you can pick up the “Chocobo & Moogle” Summon Materia. The two screenshots below show the item location (the red glowing item):
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In Lockstep Bypass the delta-level security lock in Mako Reactor 5. |
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Chapter 7 / Discovery: Waste Recovery (Objective: Storm the Gates) / Area: Front Gate (Security Ops) When the story forces Cloud, Tifa, Barret to push 3 switches simultaneously in sync to open a door, there will be a purple discovery marker on the map. Use the terminal where the purple marker is. Then you have to use the 3 switches again and push them in sync for 4 times in a row. It will open the vault door to the Waste Recovery room and unlock the trophy. You don’t need to hold on to the keycards you find throughout the level (those are not relevant for the trophy), so feel free to spend them on the Airbuster terminals. The images below show the location of the terminal:
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Crate Annihilator Complete all Normal difficulty Whack-a-Box challenges. |
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Chapter 8 – Side Quest: A Verified Hero Requirements: In Chapter 8 complete Side Quests “Kids on Patrol” –> “A Verified Hero“. In “A Verified Hero” Side Quest you get to play Whack-a-Box. This can be repeated after the side quest as many times as you wish. In order to get this trophy you must beat the high score of 30,000 points. It’s only one challenge, not multiple. This challenge consists of smashing some boxes within a time limit. There are 3 colors of boxes: Yellow is for points only, Blue is for points + ATB gauge, Red is for bonus time. The basic strategy for reaching 30,000 is that you must reach as many red time blocks as possible and not get stuck trying to clear all boxes in one area. The only two attacks you’re going to use are holding Be sure to equip the Iron Blade weapon for Cloud, it has the “Triple Slash” Ability. Use Triple Slash twice on those large 1500 point boxes that are blocking your way. Two uses are enough to destroy them, which is the fastest method. From those 1500 point boxes only destroy those that are mandatory to advance, they take too long and give too few points so don’t get stuck with them. What you must do is connect the path from one red time box to the next as fast as possible, doing a few |
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Say It with Flowers Decorate the Leaf House with a floral arrangement. |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed. Unlocks near the end of Chapter 8, just before the Reno boss.
The story makes it mandatory for you to go flower picking with Aerith and bring them to the Leaf House (orphanage / school). The trophy will unlock later into the Chapter during Objective “Requests for the Mercenary” when Side Quests become available. Regardless of whether or not you do any side quests, the story makes you go back to Aerith’s house. On your way there, a woman in front of Leaf House will stop you automatically and show you the flower arrangement, at which point the trophy unlocks. There is no way to miss this, so don’t even worry about it. |
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Summon Slayer Defeat a summon in battle. |
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Below is Chadley’s Location in Chapter 8:
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Sultan of Squat Complete all squat challenges. |
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Chapter 9 – Side Quest: Burning Thighs First, you must complete Side Quest “Burning Thighs” in Chapter 9. There are 3 Squat Challenges total (Trainee, Amateur, Pro). The first Squat Challenge (Trainee) is automatically completed as part of the side quest. After completing the quest, you can talk to Jay in the Gym for the Amateur challenge and then challenge Jules for the Pro Challenge. After you did all 3 the trophy unlocks. All you must do is press |
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Dancing Queen Received a gift from Andrea for being a dance superstar. |
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Chapter 9 / Objective: Aerith’s Plan / Area: Honeybee Inn After Aerith has changed into a new dress, she will take you to Honeybee Inn where you’re supposed to get the approval of Andrea to audition for Don Corneo. There will be a forced dancing minigame. The dancing tutorial doesn’t matter for it (but it does give a Music CD Collectible if you get 10x “Great” rating, so do it). For this trophy only the main dance with Andrea matters. It goes on for about 3 minutes. All you do is press the buttons shown on screen when they start to glow (a hexagon around the button will narrow down and start glowing, that’s when you need to press it for a “Great” rating). To get this trophy you must finish the Dance with a very high overall rating. I got 26 x “Great” / 2 x “Good” / 0 x “Bad” when the trophy unlocked. When you’re doing it right, you will see Aerith clapping her hands above her head. If she’s applauding you’ll get the trophy after Cloud puts on his dress after the dance. If Aerith makes a comment like “Well you tried” you have failed. It’s highly recommended you make a manual save before the dance (as soon as you enter Honeybee Inn). Because if you fail you cannot repeat the dance unless you reload a previous save. Here are the required button presses: |
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Returning Champion Emerge victorious from a colosseum sparring session. |
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Chapter 9 / Objective: Underground Colosseum / Area: Wall Market After winning the Colosseum Tournament as part of the story (defeated Hell House boss, unmissable), you can go back into the basement of the Colosseum and talk to the NPC there to start sparring sessions. Do the first one that is 1 star difficulty and this trophy will unlock. |
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Snappy Dresser Obtain three bridal candidate outfits. |
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Dressed to the Nines Obtain all nine bridal candidate outfits. |
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| » Final Fantasy 7 (VII) Remake – How to Get All Bridal Outfits (Dresses) | ||
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Whack-a-Box Wunderkind Complete all Hard difficulty Whack-a-Box challenges. |
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Chapter 14 / Objective: Intel Gathering / Area: Sector 5 Slums (Children’s Secret Hideout) You can find the Whack-a-Box challenge in Chapter 14, in the Children’s Hideout of the Sector 5 Slums. It’s in the exact same place where the Normal difficulty Whack-a-Box took place in Chapter 8 (Crate Annihilator trophy). You need to have played Side Quest “A Verified Hero” in Chapter 8, that’s the quest that unlocked the Whack-a-Box minigame originally. Just like with the Normal difficulty Whack-a-Box you need to reach 30,000 points in the given time limit to get the trophy. It’s only really 1 challenge and not multiple, every 10,000 points gives a different reward. Like before there are different colors of boxes (red = time, blue = ATB gauge, yellow = just points). Make it your goal to get from one red gate to the next as fast as possible. Getting the time boosts is the key to win. Also use the Iron Blade’s Triple Slash again on the big blue boxes. Two uses of that is enough to destroy a big blue box very quickly. Only destroy the big blue boxes that are directly blocking your path, ignore the optional ones, and instead focus on the areas with many small boxes close together. Hold |
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Peeress of Pull-Ups Complete all pull-up challenges. |
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Chapter 14 – Side Quest: Wavering Heart In Chapter 14, as soon as you can free roam, return to the Gym in Wall Market (Sector 6 Slums) where the Squat Challenge took place in Chapter 9. There will be a quest giver in the gym for Side Quest “Wavering Heart”. Completing this Side Quest automatically completes the first Pull-Up Challenge (Trainee level). After this you need to talk to two other people in the gym – Jay for the Amateur challenge and Jules for Pro challenge. Complete all 3 of them and the trophy will unlock. It’s very similar to the Squat Challenges. All you do is press some buttons in a rhythm. The difference this time is that the button combo you must press changes each round so you need to readjust your button presses. The timing aspect is still the same as with Squats. The more successful pull-ups you do in succession, the faster you can press the buttons and build up more speed. When you get fatigued a button prompt shows up on screen and you must smash this button quickly or else you fall down. The trick to winning is to just do it without falling down. Your opponents will always fall down at some point, as long as you don’t mess up and build up your speed, you will overtake them. |
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Divine Gratitude Receive a letter from an angel. |
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Chapter 14 / Objective: Over the Wall / Area: Sector 6 Slums (Urban Advancement District) This trophy requires you to have done all side quests on your playthrough (all 24 of 26 possible quests, in chapter 9 you can only get 3/5 quests per playthrough so it’s impossible to do all 26 in one playthrough. It may be enough to just get all quests in Chapter 14 but this is unconfirmed. Getting 24 quests in 1 playthrough will unlock it for certain). If you did the side quests then the Letter from the Angel will spawn at the end of Chapter 14, thanking you for your services to the people. Picking up that letter collectible unlocks the trophy. It’s a blue glowing item on the main path to the last objective in Chapter 14, in plain sight and impossible not to see. This is after returning from the Sewers and turning in your last Side Quests. It’s on the narrow path just before reaching the wall with “Avalanche” sprayed on it. If you go to the wall you’ll also get a Point of No Return warning and can still turn back.
For all Side Quests see » Final Fantasy 7 (VII) Remake Walkthrough (All Side Quests). |
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The Johnny Experience Witness all Johnny-related incidents. |
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| » Final Fantasy 7 (VII) Remake – All Johnny Incident Locations
» Final Fantasy 7 (VII) Remake – All Collectible Locations (including Johnny Incidents) |
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Best in the Business Complete all quests. |
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| There are 26 Side Quests total. You cannot get all of them on the first playthrough. Only 24 of 26 are possible on the first playthrough. The reason being that in Chapter 9 two side quests The Party Never Stops, A Dynamite Body cancel out The Price of Thievery, Shears’ Counterattack (and vice versa). Depending on your choices in Chapter 9 you will get one or the other. You HAVE TO get the missing 2 quests through Chapter Select.
All Side Quests have Quest Givers with a green icon above their head. Only the following Chapters contain Side Quests: Chapter 3, 8, 9, 14. Check the links below for pages to each quest (text, screenshots, video guides): » Final Fantasy 7 (VII) Remake – All Side Quest Walkthroughs Chapter 3: Chapter 8: Chapter 9:
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Disc Jockey Collect all music discs. |
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| » Final Fantasy 7 (VII) Remake – All Music Disc Locations
» Final Fantasy 7 (VII) Remake – All Collectible Locations (including Music Discs) |
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Building Character Attain level 50 with a character. |
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| Level 50 is the level cap in FF VII Remake (highest level you can reach). After the first playthrough you unlock Chapter Select and earn twice and much XP. Also equip the EXP Up Materia that you get from the Combat Simulator in Chapter 16. This way you get 4 times as much XP! You’ll probably be Level 30-40 if you did the first playthrough thoroughly. Use Chapter Select to jump to Chapter 9 and play the Colosseum Fights. You can put the game on Classic difficulty so the AI plays for you and you can go away and take a break. Let it grind the Colosseum for you for a while and you’ll be Level 50 in no time! Even if you don’t, you’ll reach Level 50 shortly after starting your Hard Playthrough, so this is basically unmissable on the path to platinum. You can check your character level in the Main Menu (press ). |
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Staggering Feat Deal 300% damage to a staggered enemy. |
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There are three ways to increase an enemy’s Stagger %. Using Tifa’s Chi abilities (her default The best method is to buff Tifa twice in a row with Unbridled Strength to upgrade her Note: During Chapter 18 there’s a bike sequence with a boss that you’ll automatically stagger to more than 300% but this one doesn’t unlock the trophy! You have to use the legit method. |
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Intelligence Agent Complete all battle intel reports. |
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Weapons Expert Learn all weapon abilities. |
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| » Final Fantasy 7 (VII) Remake – All Weapon Locations & How to Get All Weapon Abilities » Final Fantasy 7 (VII) Remake – All Collectible Locations (including Weapons) |
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Master of Mimicry Learn all enemy skills. |
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That’s the Smell Defeat a malboro. |
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In order to fight a Malboro, you need to finish the game to unlock Hard Mode. Then, you’ll get a notification that new battles are available in the VR Simulator in Chapter 17 (do not confuse with Chapter 16 Simulator, it’s a new one). Load Chapter 17 and proceed a couple of minutes into it to get a cutscene with Chadley where he’ll tell you he has new Hard-only challenges for you. It’s in the corridor immediately after the first enemy encounter in this chapter (Objective: A Way Out / Area: 66F Hojo’s Laboratory: Main Level), see location image below:
The battle with the Malboro is the 5th round of the 13th challenge, named ‘Three-Person Team vs. Monsters of Legend.’ This is exclusive to hard difficulty and not available on lower difficulties. It costs 600 Gil to enter, which should be entirely negligible at this stage of the game. The best team is Cloud, Tifa and Aerith. Cloud is obviously the strongest character, whilst Tifa is great for building Stagger and Aerith is the best healer. The general loadouts and strategies as detailed in ‘Hardened Veteran’ should suffice here, as this iteration of Malboro doesn’t live up to the reputation of its companion in other Final Fantasy games. However, don’t forget to equip at least one of your characters with the ‘Enemy Skill’ Materia so that you can learn Bad Breath, a skill needed for the Master of Mimicry trophy. To get to Malboro, you first need to defeat a Bomb, a Tonberry, a Type-0 Behemoth and then a Bomb and Tonberry together. None of these should pose any threat at this stage if you’re patient and keep your party’s health up. The good thing about these fights being in the Simulator is that it replenishes 50% of your HP and MP after every battle, meaning you can be more liberal with your Healing Spells. Malboro himself is similarly easy. In fact, the most annoying part about this fight is that you have to get hit by Bad Breath to learn the Enemy Skill. Just stand in front of the Malboro until it uses the attack and then heals up. Once that’s done, you can just attack it from behind as it only attacks out of its mouth with Bad Breath, Acid and Test Bite. Roll behind it and attack with Cloud, building up the Stagger bar with Focused Thrust. If it turns around and attacks you, then either try and roll around it to continue your assault or just swap to Tifa to go behind it while it’s engaged with Cloud, again using Focused Strike. Malboro can’t face both characters at once so hit it from both sides with a pincer movement, attacking it with the character who is behind until it turns around, then swap. Malboro has no weaknesses to magic, so Aerith should be your designated healer with Magnify-Cure and she should also have a maxed Cleansing Materia equipped so she can use Esuna on any character who does happen to be hit by Bad Breath. If you’re on top of the fight, you can use her to attack Malboro from afar with normal attacks or Ray of Judgment as he can only attack from up close, but her priority should always be to heal while the other two do the damage. Malboro will go down soon enough and you’ll be rewarded with this trophy. |
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Ultimate Weapon Defeat the Pride and Joy prototype. |
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The Pride and Joy Prototype is Final Fantasy VII Remake’s ‘superboss’. You can fight it in the Shinra Combat Simulator in Chapter 17, same place where you fight Malboro. It is only available on HARD difficulty. You must also have completed all Corneo Colosseum challenges in Chapter 9/14 and 13 Shinra Combat Simulator challenges in Chapter 17 (those you can all do on classic/easy). If you’re missing the Aerith solo challenge in the Corneo Colosseum then reload Chapter 9 and accept the challenge IMMEDIATELY after defeating Hell House. This is the only time in the game that Aerith is available at the Colosseum. If you proceed too far, she will leave the party. Location: load chapter 17 (on hard difficulty) and proceed a couple of minutes into it to get a cutscene with Chadley where he’ll tell you he has new hard-only challenges for you. It’s in the corridor immediately after the first enemy encounter in this chapter (Objective: A Way Out / Area: 66F Hojo’s Laboratory: Main Level), see location image below:
The Pride and Joy fight takes place in the 5th round of the 14th and final challenge, ‘Three-Person Team vs. Top Secrets’. In a slightly bizarre twist, Pride and Joy is arguably the easiest of the 5 rounds, it’s the journey to that fight which is the hard part. You have to face Shiva, Fat Chocobo, Leviathan, Bahamut (who summons Ifrit to aid him at half health) and then Pride and Joy. The 4th fight in particular is easily the hardest fight in the entire game. Luckily, your HP and MP are healed 50% between every round. A team of Cloud, Tifa and Aerith is highly recommended. A dedicated healer is essential (Aerith), whilst Cloud goes without saying and Tifa is great for increasing Stagger %, especially since the summons have the longest Stagger time of any enemy. Cloud: Tifa: Aerith: Make sure two characters have Elemental Materia linked to Ice Materia on their armor and Cloud & Tifa have a Headband equipped to prevent against Sleep. This is purely for the Shiva fight as she uses Sleep a lot and all of her attacks use Ice. This way, you never need to heal and can focus on attacking her to whittle down her health as she likes to heal frequently. If you spend half the fight asleep or trying to heal, you’ll never get anywhere. Magnify Materia linked with Cure Materia is the best option to heal your entire party. The Magnify Materia causes your spell to heal everyone in the party and not just one. Assign it to Aerith as she’s the best healer. It’s best to have a Circlet Accessory on Aerith to increase her MP and Magic (which also boosts the healing effect). Alternatively, the Healing Carcanet is a good choice. For all of these battles, the basic strategy remains the same. Just wail away on the enemies with Cloud and Tifa, using Focused Thrust and Starshower to build the Stagger bar, and once it activates use Tifa’s The 4th round is the truly hard part. Bahamut alone is a lethal enough foe, never mind summoning Ifrit to join him once he hits half health. The problem is his use of Megaflare, which will instantly deal 9999 damage to all 3 characters. There are only a few ways to survive this: Stagger him before he counts down from 5 (unlikely), have the Reprieve ability from the Level 6 weapon cores which will leave you on 1HP, or cast Manawall (Barrier Materia) which halves all damage taken (5000 instead of 9999 damage). Luckily, he has a short cooldown period after unleashing Megaflare so it gives you enough time for a Curaga. It’s worth saving Cloud and Tifa’s Limit Breaks for Ifrit when he spawns. He can be a real menace and quickly turn the tide against you if you’re not careful, so taking him out is the top priority; Bahamut can wait. Luckily, he has fairly low HP, so one Ascension or Dolphin Flurry can wipe out half his HP bar, or kill him entirely if you’ve saved up both. Bahamut will then start counting down to another Megaflare, but he should be running fairly low on HP by this point and you should kill him with the tried and tested tactics before this happens. After getting through all this, Pride and Joy is a relief and actually quite easy. Similar to Malboro, the best bet is to get behind its legs and just keep attacking it to build the Stagger bar. It will intermittently expel jets of fire which will damage you, but not badly. Its most annoying attack is Catch, where it grabs one of your characters, leaving them unable to move, and eventually uses Brutal Tackle to slam them to the ground and instantly kill them. The only way to stop it is to attack its hand long enough so that it drops the character. What makes this fight easy is that all of its attacks are close range, except Beam Cannon. Therefore, you can keep Aerith out of the way and healing regularly while Cloud and Tifa pound it with physical attacks up close. Even if one of them goes down, she can Raise from afar with very little chance of being interrupted (make sure you have Revival Materia on all 3 characters, you can buy more of it from the vending machine outside the Combat Simulator). |
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» Final Fantasy 7 (VII) Remake Hard Difficulty Guide – Best Loadout, Tips & Tricks |
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For DLC Trophy Guides see:
» Final Fantasy VII Remake Intermission (Yuffie) DLC Trophy Guide & Roadmap
Special Thanks / Credits
Massive thanks to the following people for helping in the creation of this guide:
Darth_Krid = Hard difficulty trophy info, various Wiki contributions, Side Quests
Archavia = Various info gathering
Awesome work! Amazing game and the Wiki worked out really well too. Always a joy seeing it come together; very proud to contribute as always mate!
70hrs omfg:P
much appreciate!
Great. I chose mature dress. Guess I’ll cry in the corner. Hate that I had to wait 9 days for this guide when the game was released here in Australia on the 1st
Don’t worry mate, it’s only about an hour extra, you’ll just have to do Chapter 3 again which is short if you skip everything.
500 Hours Dependin how good ya are at RPG
As always, looks an amazing roadmap. Apologies if the below is covered in length, I’m in work so have only had time to gloss through quickly.
Can I ask; is the 6.5/10 purely for hard difficulty run? I note that it takes longer than OG completionist run on your FF7 Remake Length article even though it is a minimalist run. I was kind of just expecting Hard Mode to be a bit of a brute force exersize of getting through it – is the mode, in fact, very tough (I also see new bosses)? Thanks!
Yes the 6.5/10 is purely for hard difficulty and the bosses that are exclusive to hard.
Everything else is like a 3/10 difficulty. Beating Pride and Joy is probably the hardest because you fight waves of bosses leading up to it.
And hard is longer than the first playthorugh (which I wrote in that game length article too). The bosses themselves do take much longer because they have a lot more health on hard. But you’ll already know the game and don’t have to mess around as much with learning new weapon abilities or surfing through the menus. Can just rush through it and skip cutscenes, quests, challenges etc.
About the trophy Divine Gratitude, do you have to do all 26 odd jobs or just the 24? Since you have to replay chapter 9 to do the remaining two by choosing the last option during the coin toss scene. Also, would the letter spawn if I had finished all the odd jobs already but changed it by replaying a chapter and skipping the quests on that save even though the log says I have done 26/26 odd jobs? Thanks for the guide by way!
I had only done 24 quests for Divine Gratitude.
It may actually be enough to just do all quests in Chapter 14 but this is not confirmed. Doing all possible quests on your playthrough will unlock it for sure though. It doesn’t matter which set of quests you get in Chapter 9 for this.
And I don’t think it would spawn if you already have 26/26 and just replay chapter. You’d have to redo the chapter 14 quests all over again.
Won’t east difficulty void the trophies? Should be easier to get the Biker Boy Trophy.
Easy difficulty doesn’t void any trophy.
Do u guys think the other parts to be released will not have a platinum trophy and be more like dlcs?
I reckon they will all be full priced games with their platinum.
They probably just call it “Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 2” and give it a platinum list of its own.
I’d image they would do what they did with XIII and just name them:
FFVII Remake
FFVII Remake 2
FFVII Remake 3
I’m curious as to why you gave FFVII higher difficulty rating than RE3.
The only challenging part in RE3R was Inferno Nemesis as it couldn’t be cheesed in anyway. Does that mean that FFVII has similiar “dodge or die” boss battles?
Because RE3 is a joke with infinite rocket launcher cheat. FF7’s hard difficulty doesn’t let you use cheats. It’s a whole different type of game, can’t even begin to compare a shooter with this. FF7’s hardest bosses on hard are actually, well, hard.
i wanted to ask if anyone can answer this as im not that far yet and i may miss understand it but for the ng+ hard difficulty is it only chapter select and then select the next chapter after or does it load the next chapter automatic ?
NG+ hard difficulty lets you play the chapters in any order. So you could literally start with Chapter 18. It only matters you completed each chapter once on hard.
okay i see thank you for answering so fast
But redoing the chapters, does the discovery tour come out again to choose the other dress option, or do you have to do all the missions again in chapter 3? If it were that up they must repeat all the side missions of chapter 3 twice, you have not mentioned this anywhere
You have to redo all Chapter 3 Side Quests to make the discovery event show up again.
In the walkthrough for Ch3 it says we can pick whichever dress for Tifa and that it doesn’t matter for the story. Thankfully I read this first. You might want to edit that. (Maybe it really doesn’t change anything story wise but I’d wager that people come on this site and use your walkthrough expecting them to follow the guide)
Updated, thanks for pointing that out. The Chapter 3 walkthroughs was written on 1st playthrough when the dresses hadn’t all been sorted out for their best order yet. Good you mentioned it! So yeah for trophies it’s best you don’t go for the Mature one.
question- do the chapter walk through include all the necessary steps to collect all the trophies along the way?
Well, I am screwed right? Since I’m on my first playthrough on normal and I picked mature outfit for Tifa…
Should I restart over? I’m on chapter 4 rn
What to do in my situation?!
Get it via chapter select. You only wasted about 1-2 hours, not too big of a deal.
After story, select Chapter 3 > pick your missing outfit > finish chapter 3 > exit chapter > jump to chapter 9 > finish chapter 9 > done.
I also added this is a note to the Roadmap in case anyone else picked Mature option. You’ll just have to do the side quests on hard then but the chapter 3 quests aren’t too bad anyway and give you manuscripts.
How have you got 2 elemental Materia? Is there more than 1 to collect?
Yes, see Materia Locations Guide (which is linked at the top).
Hey, I got the compliment from Jessie but didn’t get the Biker Boy trophy. What was that about?
Did you die then restart at rosche? Or went to last checkpoint?
There are at least three different outcomes. The second best is that she compliments you but adds that there is room for improvement. On the best outcome, she gives Cloud a kiss.
Can we finish side quests via chapter select or does it have to be in one run?? And for johny incidents trophy too??
I missed 4 missions and finished 22 missions, if i restart chapter 9 nd finish 2 and then restart it again, will i get the trophy??
Yes that should work. Finish chapter, use chapter select to jump to wherever you are missing the last missions.
Thank you, what about the Johnny incident trophy?? Works with chapter select aswell??
Is it possible to go into a chapter via chapter select, get a missing collectible and then change chapter without finishing it?
I can confirm myself that this actually works. I replayed Chapter 6 for getting the Chocobo materia and the music disc 18. Once I collected the materia, I jumped into another chapter and everything is kept.
I see that it says to get he very last bridal dress that I need to replay Chapter 9 and do the quests I skipped.
But it also says to do that same thing earlier in the guide during the Hard Mode run. Wouldn’t I have already done every quest then?
Not sure what to actually do.
Also, when doing Chapter 3 again for the second dress for Tifa, do I have to redo all of the side quests again?
You need 3 playthroughs (3 dresses per playthrough). The linked Bridal Dress Guide explains this some more.
Playthrough 1:
Chapter 3 (Tifa): Pick Sporty (did all side quests)
Chapter 8 (Aerith): Do all side quests
Chapter 9 (Cloud): Do first set of side quests The Party Never Stops, A Dynamite Body, Burning Thighs
Playthrough 2:
Chapter 3 (Tifa): No side quests (will automatically pick Mature)
Chapter 8 (Aerith): Do 0 side quests
Chapter 9 (Cloud): Do 0 side quests
Playthrough 3:
Chapter 3 (Tifa): Pick Exotic (did all side quests)
Chapter 8 (Aerith): Do 3/6 side quests
Chapter 9 (Cloud): Do second set of side quests The Price of Thievery, Shears’ Counterattack, Burning Thighs
I must be dumb but the buster sword got to 100% proficiency on its ability but I didn’t get “My First Ability”. Unless the buster sword already is at 100%….
It’s automatically at 100% and doesn’t work for the trophy. Even says in the trophy guide :p
About the Ultimate Weapon trophy:
All Corneo Colosseum challenges in Chapter 9/14 and 13 Shinra Combat Simulator challenges in Chapter 17 must be done on hard?
No. Only the last challenge with Pride and Joy in it must be played on hard (it cannot be started on lower difficulty).
Everything else you can do on Classic/Easy.
I got dancing queen trophy with 21/4/3
I think you must need at least 21 greats, cause I got the Trophy with just 21 as well.
Hi, I have a correction. You can still achieve the Heavenly Dart Player trophy near the end of Chapter 4 if you didn’t get it in Chapter 3. Following the battle against the Enigmatic Spectre, Avalanche regroups at the Seventh Heaven, where Barret allows Cloud and Tifa to join the next mission in place of Jessie and Wedge. After the cutscene, you’ll have the opportunity to play darts prior to heading to the train station. If you unlock the trophy here, Wedge will be waiting near the door to give you the Luck Up materia on your way out.
Also to clear up Dressed to the Nines trophy; you do not need to complete chapter 9. This will register the dress for each character when you first see it: Tifa in the carriage right at the end of Chapter 8, Aerith when Johnny calls her to come to Don Corneos and Clouds in the alley after the Honeybee Mini game. This helps cut down time as you can jump between chapters and make the changes you need to straight after seeing the ones you need. Just be sure to go into system> Play Log > check the corresponding characters dress number has gone up by one and you’re good to be manually save and chapter jump straight away.?
Hi Powerpyx. Thank you for the guide. I have one question. Do you know if you can max all weapon upgrades for each character and weapons. Thanks
If you get all Manuscripts on Hard, yes. We posted a guide for that this morning 🙂
It‘s absolutely not true that you can do the 5-star difficulty Challenges on the Shinra Combat Simulator on easy.
I also tried via Chap select on easy but you still can choose Hard only.
You can start the chapter on easy and once you get to the combat simulator you must select Malboro / Pride and Joy on HARD. These bosses are available on HARD ONLY.
Man this is not fair to be honest, i’m a trophy hunter with 200 platinum trophies and i had 1 hour only to kill the first boss in hard mode, now i’m stuck in chapter 4 and can’t kill roche. What the hell is the developers thinking? This game is a nightmare at hard mode. Very difficult.. if anything i ron’t know if its even possible, its like torturing prisoners lol..
You have to learn to dodge and block, otherwise you won’t make it. Killed Roche on the first try, so very doable. Hard mode is about strategy if loadout and knowing the movements of the bosses.
Will the materia you listed make hard mode easier? And should all of them be maxed out??
The purpose of the guide is to make hard easier, so yes those recommended Materia are meant to make it easier 🙂
Maxing them out is best if you can, but some of them would take a long time to max out and it’s not absolutely necessary. Just level them up as much as you can without excessive grinding.
Any plans to post a Manuscript locations guide? I just noticed there’s a whole bunch you can get on Hard mode, but not sure if they’re given automatically or you have to seek them out.
Manuscript Guide just went live (linked at top of Trophy Guide) 🙂
Enjoy!
Thanks!
You Rock : D
Dancing queen:
if anyone is curious if you get 25 Great 1 good 2 bad you still get the trophy. don’t be discourage if you miss a couple because of the many visual effects!
I got it with only 21 greats, someone else as well commented they got it with only 21 greats.
So im having trouble with Master of Mimicry – Self Destruct. I went to the Smogger spot from the guide, killed it and made sure that Cloud, who is holding the Enemy Skill materia, gets hit by the self destruct hit, but im not learning it. Am i doing something wrong?
You need to have the Enemy Skill Materia equipped. It doesn’t always learn the move on the very first time you get hit by the move. Get hit by a few more self-destructs and it should learn it.
*in case you have not gotten this yet* I was able to get it from one of the Chapter 17 bosses. Can’t remember its name but it was the boss the (SPOILERS) froze Red XIII when he was about to attack Hojo (end Spoilers). At some point it will create a bunch of smaller versions of itself, and they use self destruct when they are taken out.
I happened to miss the smogger (forgot to equip the materia), and ended up getting it pretty easily during this battle there were so many of them.
If i want to continue the hard mode, do i have to start new game or can i simply just start from chapter selection and then select hard?
You can’t select Hard in New Game. It’s ONLY available through Chapter Select.
Is it worth trying to get Gotterdammerung before starting the Hard playthrough to make it easier? Otherwise you don’t get it until you’ve pretty much finished the game
I’d say probably no. It’s the hardest fight besides the endboss. Better to play the chapters in order to get used to hard mode. Then you’ll have a somewhat easier time with Pride and Joy.
If you do Pride and Joy first you’ll have one very hard challenge first (which may put most people off from playing through hard), but if you manage to do it the rest of the game gets easier. There are arguments to be made for either option. You can give it a try and if it takes too long forget about it for now and play chapters in order.
Another thing is you get additional SP for weapon skills / upgrades on your hard playthrough (via Manuscripts). So this comes in very handy for Pride and Joy because by that time you’ll have maxed out weapon skills.
Basically: playing through hard first makes Pride & Joy easier. Doing Pride & Joy first makes hard easier.
I didnt do the combat simulators until I reached Chapter 17 on hard, then I did all the stuff in one rush with getting Gotterdammerung. To this point you have max level, good leveled weapons and materias, so the fights will go pretty smooth.
Chapter 17 and 18 are possibly the hardest ones (at least for me they were) so having Gotterdammerung there saved my ass a lot (also with MP ;)).
Just unlocked hard mode. Can you jump around chapter wise? Say do later chapters then go back? Silly question I know just wanted to get the VR fights out the way first to get the enemy skill/items.
Yes, in the Data Log it registers Hard Chapters completed /18.
So if you’re feeling particularly brave, you could do Chapter 17 first, get Gotterdammerung and make most of the boss fights trivial if you so desired.
Hi.
for the trophy Dressed to the Nines i need to do some quests and avoid others. i wanted to know that if you i skip them (in my second playthrough) are they count for do all side quests trophy? i mean done side quests are still done at all or if i skip them in second playthrough, they count as non-done quests?
You can get the darts achievement in chapter 4 as well when you take Jessie in the bar you can play it then,
Great work on this but you should definitely warn readers not to pick Hard chapter 9 on the second playthrough directly (I’m sure 99% of players would).
To your point not everyone has two revives and its a huge fucking bum to have to quit the level and play everything again because Hell House is so difficult.
To get all the manuscripts, chapter 9 has to be played twice on hard, unfortunately.
Hey Powerpyx,
Love this guide – the speed at which you put these up is absolutely amazing. Thank you for doing these for us so thoroughly.
I just had a question on the dresses. I would like to do a minimalist “hard” play-through as my very last trophy as I think there’s something quite nice in that.
Is there any reason that I wouldn’t be able to swap play through’s 2, and 3 (below) for the dresses? I did the quests in chapter 14 properly (party never stops first).
Apologies if this has already been answered, I looked through the guide and the comments and couldn’t find anything.
Thanks
Sa_Fi_
You can do them in any order, doesn’t matter. So yes you can swap the playthrough 2/3 suggestions.
There’s no reason you couldn’t replay for the dresses 3x on Easy, correct? I get that you’ll be doing a hard runthrough anyway, so you may as well fold the 2nd set into that, but I might not do the hard run for a long while and was thinking I could at least take care of the misc. trophies now saving only those attached to the hard difficulty for down the road.
You can get them all on easy. If you want you can get your missing 6 dresses on easy right away after first playthrough. You’d be wasting 2-3 hours though.
When replaying chapters, do you have to finish the chapter for progress to save? For example if I get enemy skills or level characters to 50 through chapter select.
Yes.
I just tried it myself and the answer is No. I got the enemy skill from the start of chapter 15 and immediately quit out to chapter select. The skill was still there in my abilities list in another chapter.
In chapter select mode, do you also have to finish the chapter for level ups to count? Say I want to do the remaining 2 sidequests in ch9, grind til level 50 at the colosseum and then nope out, is that possible, or will the levels only save if I actually finish the chapter? Because I’ve read some comments here that said items actually get saved without finishing the chapter?
Stuff that registers in some sort will stay:
– Grabbing materia and/or items and leave the chapter – materia will stay
– Popping a trophy and leave – trophy will stay
– Getting manuscripts and leave – you will have the points
I m not sure about side quests tho. They are getting marked as cleared but I didnt try to leave in between.
Hello and thank you for this awesome guide!
I m on my hard playthrough now and I m struggling a bit on Chapter 3. You write that for the bridal questline I should not do any sidequests at all but I m supposed to finish at least one sidequest in Chapter 3 so I am able to progress, right?
So I was talking to Chadley, which finished the job immediately and I progressed on. But now I have one sidequest resolved. Is this still good or did I already mess up?
Thanks in advance and amazing job on the guide!
Doing 1 quest in Chapter 3 is mandatory and doesn’t void anything. So you’re good.
In theory you could also do all quests and then in the Discovery event pick the dress choice “Mature”, but you’d simply be wasting an hour of playtime as she’ll wear the Mature dress by default when you haven’t done the side quests. Doing the side quests doesn’t void anything, just costs you time.
Thanks for answering so fast. You helped quite a bunch!
Maybe it might be a worthy addition to describe a minimalistic second run passage as a small addition to each chapter in accordance to your first, e.g. Ch1,2 straight playthrough. Ch3 do at least one quest, play one game at 7th Heaven, progress on etc.
Anyways, keep up the great work. Your guides are always amazing and so helpful. Very appreciated!
Hi PP, first of all thank you very much for the amazing guide. One question though. Im on stage 2 of the roadmpa trying to grind Exp/Materia for hard mode but Im not sure if this is the best place to do so or if i got it wrong. i have only two battles opened at the colisseum and, at least in this part of the game, only Cloud in my party 🙁
After doing the Colosseum Main objective, return to the Colosseum immediately so Aerith is still in your party. If you advance the story you can no longer have Aerith with you (past the point where she changes into her dress).
Ohh one mor thing PP, aboout this “You must also have completed all Corneo Colosseum challenges in Chapter 9/14 and 13 Shinra Combat Simulator challenges in Chapter 17 (those you can all do on classic/easy)” … only 6 of the Shinra Simulator can be done on easy, the rest have to be done in hard.
Got it thanks. I did just that 🙂 Didnt know you can earn experience with Cloud and it counts for everyone else. When Cloud reached lv50 everybody but Aerith were on lv 49.
I did level up at the start of chapter 16 in the garage.
The best way to grind AP and EXP is to play the Two-Person vs High Flyers battle in the combat simulator in Chapter 17. You do the first round then give up at the start of the second round. Cloud can one shot the enemies in Round 1 with triple slash. This gives 2000 EXP and 48 AP (96 AP to materia linked to AP Up materia). It costs 400 Gil per fight so you need to have a lot of Gil saved up, but you should have enough by the time you have finished the story.
alright thanks!
Hello, I have a question. I’m at the last chapter (18) on hard difficulty but aerith doesn’t join the party on the last boss fight. What can I do to get her now? should I replay other chapters to get her on the last chapter?
So the theory is that who joins you for final boss MIGHT be based on whether you went to Aerith or Tifa first in Chapter 10 (where they wake up in sewers). Complimenting Aerith in all other situations (Chapter 9) might help too. But this is unconfirmed, it might just be random who joins you on final boss. Worth a shot to replay Chapter 10 and then jump back to Chapter 18, see what happens. Having Aerith is an advantage on final boss.
Finally I got the Platinum trophy! Thanks a lot for the guide (helped me with hard mode a lot because I got the other trophies before the game was released).
Replaying ch 10 helped me to get Aerith on my team for the Sephiroth fight, ch 9 didn’t have any results for this (I tried both to confirm this)
For the Malboro trophy, is it recommended to have fully maxed out, level 6 weapons from Hard mode before attempting that? I just tried to do it on Hard immediately after beating the game on Classic. I got destroyed by the Behemoth in round 3. The description for the trophy makes it sound like it’s an easy fight.
Playing the chapters in order is recommended, which will automatically get you weapon level 6. Having more SP helps.
I did it after betaing the story on Normal. Still a though fight. My team was C/T/A. Everybody had revival. Cloud went for the body parts and Tifa just added some damage + stagger. Make sure you are at least at lv50 with all your weapons maxed. Barrier helps.
The Malboro isnt that bad actually, you just need to keep your distance and get hit once to learn the skill. Btw I dounf that Lustrous Shield works like a charm against Tornberry.
Tbh it all depends on how your personal skills and patience are. The patterns are all the same, I did not use any ressurect, barrier, time etc. just normal attacks and heal on all the bosses. It just would take more time to do them and therefore rising the risk to fail or run out of mana.
Malboro is very very easy. Actually I had to slow down with my dmg to not get it rekt before getting the enemy skill because it didnt work the first time. Just punch him and thats it… catch Bad Breath for the trophy after that just run in circles when he does it. He will be dead very fast.
Bahamut can be rough through sheer dmg but even here. Just kite around his ass all the time. Hit, turn around, hit. If he enrages, run away. When he comes for you then roll-dodge in circles away until he cools down. Then rinse and repeat. In my two tries I had to do I did not even accumulate enough damage to get a limit break.
Good luck!
“You also earn twice as much XP and three times as much AP in Chapter Select now.”
Only in hard mode or on normal/easy too?
In every difficulty mode.
you can actually get the summon trophy as early as chapter 2 if you have a summon from dlc. (examples being cactuar or chocobo chick)
So I got a question for Powepyx or anyone who’s followed the guide to the letter. I’m on my first easy playthrough right now and I’m close to the end. What do I do next? Do I actually reload chapter 9 and get rid of the 2 remaining sidequests and grindy requirements for trophies? And then start Hard mode? Do I have to replay colosseum and battle sim fights, or do they remain registered as complete? Don’t wanna mess this up and get the plat as efficiently as possible since I’m out of storage on my PS4 and would like to get the plat as soon as possible!
Finish game > go to Pause Menu / System / Chapter Selection > Load Chapter 9 > Do remaining 2 side quests (side quest trophy unlocked) > stay in Chapter 9 and level up all the 12 Magic Materia you need for Battle Intel Reports.
Optional but useful: Combine with leveling up some of the Materia for your hard build (outlined in Hard Difficulty Tips).
Alright, thanks, and when I’m done? Do I finish chapter 9 or just quit to the main menu?
any helpful tips/advice with the pullup mini game? I’ve turned music and speech off but struggle to get above 41 with no falls.
You can just try tbh. I did worse without music dont ask me why. What helped me a lot for both of the mini games was this:
– Start slow at the beginning and concentrate on the presses that are shown. Make it safe.
– When the visual help fades out you can see when to press according to the character stance. When it moves, dont press. When it stops, press.
– After the first speed up and even more after the second, do not concentrate on anything but just press the buttons with a rhytm. After the first speed up, just press the buttons in a speed that you can do. If you fail, minorly adjust it until you find your pace. After the second speed up, you can mostly just press the buttons and afther the third speed up you can basically hammer it without failing.
Every button press checkpoint also has some action space before. You can see that in the beginning with the visual aid. You can press a little bit earlier. And also you cannot press too late because he just waits.
So: remember presses, take it safe at the beginning, find your rhytm after the speed up 1 and then just go for it.
Also it is a little bit luck based. Normally 44 will win it no matter what. In the first half I was able to do 22 at most. Your opponent can vary a lot from 17 to 23 for me. So try to relax, memorize the presses with a rhytm and you should get it.
Good luck!
Dancing Queen is glitched for me. Tried multiple times with 26 great/2 good and the trophy didn’t unlock…
I did 24/26 sidequests on first playthrough and got the letter, but when I did the 2 missing sidequests in chapter 9 via chapter select, nothing happened and it still says 24/26. Is this bugged?
When you press R2 on the world map it only shows the ones you completed on your playthrough (which can be 24/26 at most). If you go to System > Play Log it should say 26/26, the game uses the Play Log tracker to unlock the trophy.
So I’ve completed the game and done everything except bridal dresses and hard trophies. I load up 17 on hard, get to Chadley and he doesnt give any more VR missions past Bahamut.
Enter the Combat Simulator behind Chadley (not from Chadley himself).
You have to to the training room past him. Open the map and look for the round room. It is similar to the one you had to use in Shira HQ.
I need help with the Pull ups. I cannot get past Jules..
I did start quite slowly to not mess up and then continuously increased the speed. After you had to press X repeatedly, I did wait for a split second to not mess up the next button.
Basically it is no problem to be slower. You have to find the correct rhythm to keep in time and don’t press the next button too quickly.
I didn’t look at the character animation but did listen to the sound it makes when you can press the button in the beginning of the game. I did focus on the button overlay so I knew when to trigger X.
Sorry for my ramblings. Basically just keep trying and you will eventually get it. It might also be a good idea to sleep and try the next day. This helped me to get the trophy “Fector’s Challenge” in Stardew Valley ?
On the Hard/minimalist playthrough (step 3) after chapter 9 once you have got the second set of dresses is it ok to do the chapter 14 sidequests for some extra manuscripts or is there something else that skipping those gets you?
You can do the chapter 14 side quests if you want. Not really necessary though (I got all weapon upgrades that I wanted without any side quests).
Cheers for the quick reply, the completionist in me needs them all and the less chapter repeats the better hahaha
“ Make sure two characters have Elemental-Ice on their armor..”
HOW???? ??♂️?
You take two Elemental Materia (one per character) and link it to Ice Materia.
See Materia Locations Guide.
Does not work for me, I get damage.. ???♂️?
I have a question to the Biker Boy trophy, maybe someone knows:
When you meet Roche you can restart at this point to get the trophy right or is the segment before also counting in? Because I m pretty damn sure I should ve hit the treshold but Jessie said I failed not even the pass fluke one.
Does anyone know whether only the Roche part decides?
Nvm… just read that if you retry from this part it gets voided… sorry :/
I’m not sure if it’s only me but i didn’t get “Say It with Flowers” trophy even though i was stopped by the women and she showed me the flower arrangement
i finished the game so i have no idea what went wrong
Mine randomly popped a bit later in the chapter ….
Thank you so much, PowerPyx. Today I just got the Plat. Your guide helped me so much!
Just as a side note for chapter 17 simulator. You can access everything on easy. It is when you select it you only have the hard option. Also the ring for beating Pride and Joy is SO overpowered.
Once you get used to Tifa and have a lot of HP it becomes ok. Also is the damage to limit breaks improved just by physical damage or does magical damage factor in?
You seem to indicate you need to do chapter 9 a total of 4 times:
1. Once on initial playthrough
2. Return after finishing first playthrough to get the two remaining quests and get the trophy for completing all side quests.
3. Return after doing minimalist runs of chapters 3 and 8, doing a minimalist run of chapter 9 as well to unlock those “lower effort” dresses.
4. Return after making the final dress choice for Tifa in ch3 and doing half of Aerith’s quests in ch8, then do the other ch9 quests you didn’t do in your original playthrough.
Except, isn’t #2 redundant? Wouldn’t the trophy for completing all quests be unlocked naturally in the process of getting all the dresses? Why make that trip in #2 when I could just wait to unlock that trophy in #4?
Also, if the idea is to visit ch9 in #2 to grind up levels and AP for Hard Mode, couldn’t you just do that in #3?
In other words:
#1 Easy/Normal Mode full playthrough, doing all possible quests, selecting “Sporty” or “Exotic” for Tifa’s dress, get 3/9 dresses, unlock chapter select.
#2 Easy/Normal Mode, replay chapters 3, 8, and 9, doing minimal side quests, Tifa’s dress defaults to “Mature” without doing her side quests, GRIND UP EXP AND AP AT COLISEUM, get 6/9 dresses.
#3 Hard Mode, full playthrough, doing all side quests in chapter 3 selecting whichever Tifa dress you didn’t select in #1, doing 3/6 side quests in chapter 8, doing the other two remains side quests in chapter 9, get 9/9 dresses, unlock all quests trophy.
When do you guys think Ep. 2 is releasing? 2022 or 2023?
Part 1 was in development for about 6 years (the announcement trailer was 5 years ago but they had already worked on it for some time). And that’s only 10-15% of the full game.
Since they have all the core assets made, development on Part 2 should go smoother but will depend on how much of the story they want to cover. If they make Part 2 longer it could be another 5 years. My guess is 2024 – 2025 for Part 2.
And if they ever finish the full game, at this pace it won’t be on PS5 but will have us waiting into the PS6 era in 10+ years. Certainly not anytime soon.
My guess (if they ever finish it and assuming they add side quests etc. to every part to expand on the original):
Part 1 = 2020 (10% story done – late PS4 era)
Part 2 = 2024-2025 (35% story done – mid PS5 era)
Part 3 = 2028 (65% story done – late PS5 era)
Part 4 = 2032 (100% story done – PS6 era)
By far the fastest and most efficient method to level up materia and XP fast is to replay the beginning of chapter 16 on classic with EXP UP and AP UP (pedometer materia after you do 5k steps) equipped. As you move through the parking garage taking out the shinra soldiers and dogs you will earn basically one level each run and it only takes ~5 mins. Then reload via chapter select and repeat. Stop after you take out the group that includes riot guards. Saw this somewhere else and it worked great and quickly.
Nah, too much hassle. I was already Level 50 on the first run in Chapter 9.
Just afk farm the colloseum and watch a movie. No need to play at all.
For MAX materia do the same thing on the second run with 3x AP. Just AFK AUTO fight the colloseum. Let the game farm for you.
This method is all about XP/AP per minute/hour, not necessarily being AFK. It depends on your preference. This also allows you three characters worth of materia slotted to MAX out vs only two. It’s ~25K XP and 271 AP plus 2x on whatever you link AP UP to for each 4-5 minute run. Use fire elemental weapons and spells to deal w enemies quickly.
Yes, it’s a more active method, but also much much faster, at least for XP. You can’t literally leave the room for 2-3 hours and come back when doing the colosseum regardless, you still have to press buttons to start the matches and continue after they are done.
Of course, you need a second Screen/TV, to do that afk farming. And pressing 2 buttons after a fight is no problem.
And i meant the Simulator Chapter 17. (Chapter Select after first Run)
The first fight is a 3 Team fight. Fast and easy. Getting all your materia maxed out within 3 hours. That’s two movies. I am lazy. I don’t want to move around for EXP/AP. AUTO AFK FARMING NO BRAIN 🙂
Great guide! I’m just here to clarify one thing! Other choices in Ch. 9 can still lead to Aerith getting the red dress. The first time I played through, I didn’t read your guide and I got the red dress. My choices were:
Sam: Great shape (same as guide)
Johnny: Don’t remember
Hotel: I never went in it
Coin flip: I chose the option to flip the coin
Massage: I chose the expensive option
Aerith: It’s alright (same as guide)
I mean, everyone probably should make the choices you listed just to be on the safe side. Just thought more info would be helpful!
Also, your builds look great, but if anyone was looking for something different that also works, this is what I tried:
Cloud – Hardedge (Elemental + Fire/Ice/Wind/Lightning, Chakra, ATB Assist, First Strike, Revival), Cog Bangle (HP Up, HP Up, Healing), Champion Belt
Barret/Tifa – Big Bertha or Metal Knuckles (Elemental + Fire/Ice/Wind/Lightning, Prayer, ATB Boost, First Strike, Revival), Cog Bangle (HP Up, HP Up, Healing), Champion Belt
Tifa/Aerith – Mythril Claws or Mythril Rod (Magnify + Healing, MP Absorption + Fire/Ice/Wind/Lightning, Chakra, Skill Master), Chain Bangle (HP Up, HP Up, MP Up, MP Up), Circlet
I was flexible with this setup, like giving Cloud the Chain Bangle obviously when he was the only one I could use at the time or something. I also would swap out some materia to level others (like First Strike for the magic materia needed for the Battle Intel). For some fights, I would use other magic like Barrier, for example, but my basic setup was always fairly close to this.
The last thing is that I never bothered grinding at all. I beat the game on Normal around level 36-37 and you can hit level 50 easy just doing the first few chapters of Hard (because of the bonus XP). I think I was level 50 around chapter 4ish? It wasn’t too bad 🙂
I think that the choices in chapter 8, i.e. the number of side quests you do, affect Aerith’s dress.
Did you get anything from 100% play log? I just can’t get resolution for Barret and Aerith
Great job ! Quick question : When you’re using chapter selection to get a specific item, do you have to finish the chapter or can you leave just after grabbing it ? I know that you have to finish the hole chapter for the Dressed for the Nines trophy, but is it the same for items ? ( materias, CD’s, ect )
Thanks !
Hey power! The double exp and triple AP from chapter select counts for all difficulty? If I replay a chapter on easy do I still earn the boost in exp and ap?
Hello the lovely and talented Powerpyx. I unlocked the chapter 4 trophy, but I did not unlock the chapter 3 trophy. I received the Ifrit summon from Jessie outside the apartment. This is the moment it should unlock right? My psn id: FaithInDeath19. What do you suggest the lovely and talented Powerpyx?
Can anyone confirm if you can go in to a chapter, play some challenges and it saves it? I’m missing one in Corneo’s Colliseum and two in Shinra CS chapter 16.
I always finished the chapter afterward to make sure it 100% saved. So yes, you can replay chapters and redo challenges (but I’d make sure to finish the chapter, just to be safe). I haven’t tested just quitting out after doing a challenge without finishing the chapter, but after beating the story the game gives you a tutorial that says to always finish chapter to save choices. So that’d be the safest bet.
I have jumped from hard to difficulty on chapter select, but It seem It doesn’t save in play log. I can’t see it. Does somebody know what the deal is? It say I have done no hard chapters when I have done three.
*to easy difficulty
So you are recommending a fast play through for HARD by skipping all the side quests but how about all the manuscripts you can get from all the side quests? Does it not really necessary for HARD?
You get enough manuscripts automatically from the bosses. Faster to just skip the side quests.
Getting bad breath skill from Malboro. I got hit with Bad breath twice with the character with the skill materia. But I just never learn the ability. Anyone know whats up?
Beat Pride and Joy, and never got the Trophy, are you f’ing kidding me
I would like my last trophy before platinum to be the hard difficulty trophy,. Can I do step 4 before doing step 3 in the guide? I know weird but I like doing as much cleanup as I can before finishing the game.
did you try it? can you?
I’m sorry, but what should I do here. It was recommend to me by a friend to not do any side quests on my first play through (easy), and on hard do all of them (for the other dresses), and replay the necessary chapters for the dresses. He said this because doing the side quests on hard gives you manuscripts and other things. Should I follow his advice to save time or the guide? Thanks
I followed the guide and can say that your friend is right. I wanted all manusripts and had to replay stupid chapter 9 again. But don’t go ch. 9 on hard right after finishing game on normal, you will be destroyed.
FF 7 Remake
Do I have to complete on Hard Mode on one shot?
I have completed Hard mode from Chapter 1 to Chapter 17. Can I farm AP from other chapters before doing Chapter 18 on hard.
Will my Chapter 1 to Chapter 17 completed on hard mode be saved?
Hi,
Im stuck on the arsenal on hard and i dont have the gotterdammerung, since i need the cleanse materia. If o will go back to chapter 3 and get it by doing the side quest, it will screw the 2nd 3 dresses for me ? I dont know what to do.. i really need that Gotterdammerung !
do the side quest on lvl 3, but don’t do the purple mission with Tifa. just get the materia and teleport to chapter 14 on easy to farm AP from the coliseum
I just completed the game on hard mode and my Hardened Veteran didn’t pop. I saved it just before the end of chapter 16. I beat Chapter 17 and 18 and left an easy one to finish it off. I just dont understand why this wont pop for me
any tips would be helpful
Dumb or what? Just look at your Chapter Select. Game will tell you, if you have done “Hard” on that Chapter….
Helllo a question regarding the dressing on the top it says
Step 2: Chapter Select to Chapter 9 for the missing two Side Quests & grind XP / AP in Colosseum
But then
Step 4: The last 3 Dresses
In Chapter 9 do the opposite quests you didn’t get on your first playthrough. Then continue playing to the end of Chapter 9 to unlock Cloud’s last dress.
My questions is if we did the remainder 2 quests during step 2 wouldn’t that override our dress choices during our initial 1 playthrough?
No it won’t if you dind’t finish Chapter. Just immediately select another chapter after finishing quests.
Also dunno why step 2 is presented since you will do these quests for dress anyway.
FYI: I had Aerith and Tifa (no Barret) on my both playthoughs following this guide. Gave hand to Aerith on Ch. 10 sewers, dunno if there were other affecting choices.
Also on night scene near Aerith house I had Aerith spirit on first playthough and Barret in flesh on second.
Great guide. Followed this beauty and never let me down.
Question on Johnny Experience trophy… first play thru I did every Johnny Experience, except the one during “the party never stops” quest. I answered the dialogues different and got the other two side quests instead.
Do I have to replay the game getting every Johnny Experience again, or can I just go back and get the proper quest and only get the one I’m missing?
Unfortunately the “Masters of Mimicry” trophy has glitched for me with all four enemy skills unlocked.
I’m currently deleting & redownloading the game and save files to see if this helps the problem.
If not, I am going to attempt to try and learn all the skills again to see if it was an in-game bug.
I missed one of the challenges of aerith In chapter nine but i finished the game on hardest difficulty and now i wanna go for the ultimate weapon trophy. Do i have to play from chapter 9 to 17 again or i can play the two chapters separately?
Play the chapter 9 than you can go directly to chapter 17.
In both my Classic and Hard Mode playthroughs, I forgot to get Aerith’s coliseum battles done. I’m at Sephiroth in Hard Mode now and can’t beat him without Godderdamerung item. Can I return to a chapter in Hard Mode and still get the Hardened Veteran trophy?
Yes, you can do it.
Just got the Plat and clocked in at 91 hours. Your guides were SO helpful as always! Thanks lads (and Krid… :p <3)
Just wanted to say thanks for this guide. I did my first run when it first released, then did my second dress run real quick and some other cleanup trophies, but put it down for a while to play other games. Finally came back and did my hard run over the past week, which was surprisingly much easier than I expected with all of your good advice. Of all the bosses, I only had to fight 3 of them twice to beat them…and hell house took about 5 tries. Platted just around the 60 hour mark, so this guide is true to form. Definitely one of my more proud plats to have, thanks to you.
Is there a trophy for getting all summons? I forgot to pre-order and was not avble to get the other summons (entirely my fault!). I
You have to get every summon to get the Platinum anyway (you have to do all of Chadley’s VR missions and find the Chocobo/Moogle one for a trophy), but pre-order summons have no impact on anything.
Thank you for this information. I thought it will affect my attempt for platinum.
Awesome guide! Really helpful. thanks.
I just disagree about the estimated platinum difficulty, it’s 5 maximum. It can’t be at the same level as nioh, sekiro, souls games, crash trilogy and so on.
Do you played those games? What is supposed to be harder in Dark Souls than fighting Bahamut/Ifrit? Final Fantasy VIIre is top tier in terms of difficulty no question about it.
Reading up on the trophies I think I’ll just play the game once and not worry about this plat.
I don’t understand the thinking of game makers when it comes to trophy choices. Save here. Don’t do this. Do that. Do this later. Replay that but not this. Play game in speed mode. Don’t kill anyone. Choose to do this to get that trophy but not next time. etc.
Quick notes:
– The guide is still up to date for the PS5 Intergrade version. The trophy requirements are 1:1 the same.
– If you already platinumed it on PS4 you can upload your platinum save from the Title screen (with PS4 version). Then in the PS5 version’s title screen you can download that save and it will autopop all trophies. If it doesn’t, then upload another save and repeat (in my case it was buggy on first try but autopopped everything on 2nd try).
– Yuffie DLC will be covered in a new/separate guide. Should be ready tomorrow and will be linked here in the main guide.
what if platinum on ps5 and use save on ps4 to autopop? (cross save option)?
Doesn’t work. You can only transfer save from PS4 > PS5.
It can’t be transferred from PS5 > PS4. One way only.
Fantastic guide. I noticed that you gave this game a difficulty rating of 6.5/10, which is higher than PSNProfiles, who gave it a 5. In my opinion, I lean more towards your side of the scale. Personally I think this game was harder to platinum than Sekiro (as you know, you could cheese some fights, and the game was fair for the most part.) I also think this game was harder to platinum than Bloodborne or Dark Souls 3. Dark Souls 3 was a convoluted and tedious process to platinum for sure, but in both Dark Souls 3 and Bloodborne you could summon help in multiple ways which made it easier. The majority of FF7 on hard was not too bad, but there were some fights that were an 8 or 9 for me. I felt some of them were cheap and required a lot of luck and many attempts to get through. Overall I would rate it a 7.5 or 8. Not all of us have the skill or brain you or your team members possess. I definitely used autopop on PS5 ;) No shame at all.
Just a helpful tip I found while playing hard mode. If you find shinra boxes that give you a mako shard, you can save, then reload the game and you can keep getting mako shards until your MP is maxed again.