Day #245 Recap (Final Fantasy VII)

Current Game: Final Fantasy VII

Current Play Time: 40:30
Total Play Time - 472:19
Current Game Overs - 1
Total Game Overs: 45

Where I Currently Am: Midgar Redux
Stuff Did Today: Finished up Chocobo Racing, then went around collecting the Multi-Millenia old Materia  (try saying that 3 times fast). Explored the Ancient Forest for some cool upgrades, and picked up Vincent's ultimate stuff from the waterfall. Then off to Rocket Town to take back our rocket which then blasted off into space. Took the Huge Materia back... next, back on solid ground we went to Cosmo Canyon to talk to Bugenhagen and drop off the Huge Materia. Back to the City of Ancients to discover that Aeris has already set our salvation in motion, there's just the small matter of killing Sephiroth so it actually works. So, Shinra took Junon's cannon to Midgar and hooked it up to the Mako reactor and used it to unseal Sephiroth's cave after we distracted Diamond Weapon away from Midgar for long enough, but now Hojo's gone mad and we gotta break back into Midgar to stop him.

Current Setup:

Cloud - Lv 55
HP - 3495 MP - 624
Str - 79 | Dex - 47 | Vit - 72 | Mag - 106 | Spr - 78 | Luck - 25
Atk - 155/105% | Defense - 134/16% | Mg. Atk - 106 | Mg. Def - 78/0%

Limits - Braver, Cross-Slash, Blade Beah, Climhazzard, Meteorain, Finishing Touch

Equipment - Crystal Sword, Escort Guard, Ribbon
Materia Equipped
Weapon - Enemy Skill(18/24), Slash-All, Steal As Well = Manipulate, Hades = Added Effect
Armor - Elemental = Earth, Deathblow, Odin, Lightning, Ifrit

Cid - Lv 53
HP - 2609 MP - 647
Str - 64 | Dex - 47 | Vit - 70 | Mag - 157 | Spr - 104 | Luck - 23
Atk - 156/112% | Defense - 128/14% | Mg. Atk - 157 | Mg. Def - 104/2%

Limits - Boost Jump, Dynamite

Equipment - Spirit Lance, Dragon Armlet, Sneak Glove
Materia Equipped
Weapon - Steal, Morph, Bahamut ZERO = Quadra Magic
Armor - Knights of the Round, Ice, Magic Plus, Enemy Skill (17/24), Ultima, Alexander


Vincent - Lv 49
HP - 3218 MP - 616
Str - 50 | Dex - 46 | Vit - 56 | Mag - 125 | Spr - 72 | Luck - 30
Atk - 130/120% | Defense - 138/11% | Mg. Atk - 125 | Mg. Def - 72/0%

Limits - Galian Beast

Equipment - Outsider, Imperial Guard, Ribbon
Materia Equipped
Weapon - Restore = All, Enemy Skill (18/24), Leviathan, Luck Plus, Double Cut, Mime, Neo Bahamut
Armor - Time = All, HP Plus, MP Plus, Heal, Destruct

Other Party Members:

Barrett - Lv 46
HP - 3640 MP - 353
Str - 76 | Dex - 38 | Vit - 73 | Mag - 76 | Spr - 58 | Luck - 22
Atk - 153/103% | Defense - 147/17% | Mg. Atk - 76 | Mg. Def - 58/3%

Limits - Big Shot, Mindblow, Grenade Bomb, Hammerblow, Satellite Beam, Ungarmax, Catastrophe

Equipment - AM Cannon, Bolt Armlet, Protect Vest
Materia Equipped
Weapon -  None
Armor - None

Red XIII - Lv 47
HP - 3503 MP - 397
Str - 68 | Dex - 55 | Vit - 64 | Mag - 83 | Spr - 64 | Luck - 23
Atk - 144/108% | Defense - 134/21% | Mg. Atk - 83 | Mg. Def - 64/1%

Limits - Sled Fang, Lunatic High, Blood Fang, Stardust Ray, Howling Moon, Earth Rave, Cosmo Memory

Equipment - Crystal Comb, Crystal Armlet, Safety Bit
Materia Equipped
Weapon - None
Armor - None

Tifa - Lv 52
HP - 3249 MP - 483
Str - 66 | Dex - 57 | Vit - 64 | Mag - 102 | Spr - 70 | Luck - 30
Atk - 152/255% | Defense - 146/14% | Mg. Atk - 102 | Mg. Def - 70/0%

Limits - Beat Rush, Somersault, Waterkick, Meteodrive, Dolphin Blow

Equipment - God's Hand, Imperial Guard, Ribbon
Materia Equipped
Weapon - None
Armor -None

Yuffie - Lv 52
HP - 3366 MP - 664
Str - 58 | Dex - 60 | Vit - 60 | Mag - 117 | Spr - 73 | Luck - 27
Atk - 148/116% | Defense - 118/18% | Mg. Atk - 117 | Mg. Def - 73/2%

Limits - Greased Lightning, Clear Tranquil, Landscaper, Bloodfest, Gauntlet, Doom of the Living, All Creation

Equipment - Oritsuru, Dragon Armlet, Sneak Glove
Materia Equipped
Weapon - None
Armor - None

Cait Sith - Lv 45
HP - 3461 MP - 373
Str - 56 | Dex - 40 | Vit - 54 | Mag - 82 | Spr - 63 | Luck - 24
Atk - 130/100% | Defense - 124/18% | Mg. Atk - 82 | Mg. Def - 63/1%

Limits - Dice

Equipment - Crystal M-phone, Crystal Bangle, Protect Ring
Materia Equipped
Weapon - None
Armor - None

Materia Levels:
*Restore - Lv 5*
*Restore - Lv 5*
Restore - Lv 1
Restore - Lv 1
Revive - Lv 1
*Fire - Lv 4*
Fire - Lv 3
Fire - Lv 1
Time - Lv 3
Earth - Lv 3
Heal - Lv 2
*Seal - Lv 3*
Seal - Lv 1
Poison - Lv 2
Lightning - Lv 2
Transform - Lv 1
Transform - Lv 1
Gravity - Lv 1
Ice - Lv 3
Mystify - Lv 1
Destruct - Lv 3
Exit - Lv 1
Barrier - Lv 2
Comet - Lv 2
Contain - Lv 1
Full Cure - Lv 1
Ultima - Lv 2

Enemy Skill - 18/24 (Frog Song, L4 Suicide, Magic Hammer, White Wind, Big Guard, Death Force, Flame Thrower, Laser, Matra Magic, Bad Breath, Beta, Aqualung, Trine, Magic Breath, ????, Goblin Punch, Chocobuckle, Death Sentence)
Enemy Skill - 18/24 (Frog Song, L4 Suicide, Magic Hammer, White Wind, Big Guard, Death Force, Flame Thrower, Laser, Matra Magic, Bad Breath, Beta, Aqualung, Trine, Magic Breath, ????, Goblin Punch, Chocobuckle, Death Sentence)
Enemy Skill - 17/24 (Frog Song, L4 Suicide, Magic Hammer, White Wind, Big Guard, Death Force, Flame Thrower, Matra Magic, Bad Breath, Beta, Aqualung, Trine, Magic Breath, ????, Goblin Punch, Chocobuckle, Death Sentence)
Enemy Skill - 15/24 (Frog Song, L4 Suicide, Magic Hammer, White Wind, Big Guard, Death Force, Flame Thrower, Matra Magic, Beta, Aqualung, Trine, ????, Goblin Punch, Chocobuckle, Death Sentence)
Sense - Lv 1
Steal - Lv 2
Throw - Lv 1
Manipulate - Lv 1
Deathblow - Lv 1
Morph - Lv 1
Double Cut - Lv 1
Mime - Lv 1
Slash-All Lv 1

Cover - Lv 4
Long Range - Lv 1
Chocobo Lure - Lv 4
Chocobo Lure - Lv 1
HP Plus - Lv 3
MP Plus - Lv 2
Counter Attack - Lv 2
Counter Attack - Lv 1
Luck Plus - Lv 2
Magic Plus - Lv 3
EXP Plus - Lv 1
HP <-> MP - Lv 1

Elemental - Lv 2
Elemental - Lv 2
*All - Lv 5*
All - Lv 3
All - Lv 3
All - Lv 1
Added Effect - Lv 1
Added Cut - Lv 1
MP Turbo - Lv 1
MP Absorb - Lv 1
HP Absorb - Lv 1
Steal As Well - Lv 1
Quadra Magic - Lv 1

Choco/Mog - Lv 3
Shiva - Lv 4
Ifrit - Lv 4
Ramuh - Lv 2
Titan - Lv 2
Odin - Lv 2
Kjata - Lv 1
Bahamut - Lv 2
Alexander  - Lv 1
Neo Bahamut - Lv 1
Leviathan - Lv 1
Phoenix - Lv 1
Hades - Lv 1
Typoon - Lv 1
Bahamut ZERO - Lv 1
Knights of the Round - Lv 1

Chocobos:
Good Female - Rank S (released)
Great Male - Rank S (released)
Green Female -  Rank S
Blue Male - Rank S
Wonderful Male - Rank S
Black Female - Rank S
Wark!(Gold) - Rank S

Status & Notes:

So, really getting close to the end now... only a few things left to do. Midgar... Battle Square... the 3 super weapons... and the northern cave. That's it! Woohoo!!!

I will say, I like the reward for the long Chocobo Breeding sidequest... getting the ultimate Materia from it. All the big rewards in this game are really well thought out, really. The rewards for killing the weapons are good too. Well, except for Ruby weapon... that's kind of a silly reward... oh well.

One thing that I would have changed about this game, is that I probably would have gone back to Midgar more than this game does. If you're going to have the first 4-5 hours of the game take place here, why wait til the VERY end of the game to bring you back here... especially if the "evil empire" of the game has its HQ there. I mean, yes, they do follow you around the world, but still. it is such a fleshed out area, it would've been nice to have to go back there maybe another one or two times... just saying.

Okay, goals for today. Obviously, we're going to finish Disc 2, and then it is on to Disc 3... probably the first thing will be to loot the Northern Cave a bit, and then off to the Battle Square... if I get everything I need from there, that would be great. If I can start doing some work on Weapon prep that would be even better... let's see how it goes.