Day #246 Recap (Final Fantasy VII)

Current Game: Final Fantasy VII

Current Play Time: 45:25
Total Play Time - 477:14
Current Game Overs - 1
Total Game Overs: 45

Where I Currently Am: End of Game Sidequests
Stuff Did Today: Cleaned up the remnants of Shinra from Midgar, then hopped on over to the Northern Cave and looted it. Climbed back out and headed to the Gold Saucer for Round 1 of the Battle Square...

Current Setup:

Cloud - Lv 61
HP - 6139 MP - 907
Str - 82 | Dex - 54 | Vit - 77 | Mag - 132 | Spr - 115 | Luck - 33
Atk - 179/105% | Defense - 139/18% | Mg. Atk - 132 | Mg. Def - 115/0%

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

Equipment - Ragnarok, Escort Guard, Ribbon
Materia Equipped
Weapon - Enemy Skill(21/24), Kjata, Luck Plus, Bahamut, Comet, MP Plus
Armor - MP Absorb, Poison, HP Plus, Odin, Counter Attack, Double Cut

Cid - Lv 60
HP - 3209 MP - 752
Str - 67 | Dex - 48 | Vit - 75 | Mag - 173 | Spr - 108 | Luck - 24
Atk - 159/112% | Defense - 133/15% | Mg. Atk - 173 | Mg. Def - 108/2%

Limits - Boost Jump, Dynamite, Hyper Jump, Dragon

Equipment - Spirit Lance, Dragon Armlet, Ribbon
Materia Equipped
Weapon - Restore, Morph, Bahamut Zero = Quadra Magic
Armor - Knights of the Round, Long Range, Magic Plus, Enemy Skill (20/24), Ultima, Alexander

Vincent - Lv 57
HP - 2076 MP - 778
Str - 53 | Dex - 52 | Vit - 58 | Mag - 137 | Spr - 85 | Luck - 27
Atk - 133/120% | Defense - 123/63% | Mg. Atk - 137 | Mg. Def - 85/60%

Limits - Galian Beast, Death Gigas

Equipment - Outsider, Mystile, Ribbon
Materia Equipped
Weapon - Mega All, Full Cure, Added Effect, Hades, Enemy Skill(22/24), Speed Plus, Mime, Neo Bahamut
Armor -  Added Cut = Phoenix, Revive, Slash-All, Leviathan, Enemy Skill(22/24)

Other Party Members:

Barrett - Lv 52
HP - 4553 MP - 404
Str - 74 | Dex - 41 | Vit - 130 | Mag - 82 | Spr -113 | Luck - 22
Atk - 151/103% | Defense - 204/18% | Mg. Atk - 82 | Mg. Def - 113/3%

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

Equipment - AM Cannon, Bolt Armlet, Touph Ring
Materia Equipped
Weapon -  None
Armor - None

Red XIII - Lv 52
HP - 4073 MP - 444
Str - 75 | Dex - 59 | Vit - 68 | Mag - 86 | Spr - 70 | Luck - 24
Atk - 151/108% | Defense - 138/22% | Mg. Atk - 86 | Mg. Def - 70/1%

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

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

Tifa - Lv 57
HP - 4318 MP - 480
Str - 74 | Dex - 58 | Vit - 66 | Mag - 133 | Spr - 103 | Luck - 26
Atk - 160/255% | Defense - 126/22% | Mg. Atk - 133 | Mg. Def - 103/0%

Limits - Beat Rush, Somersault, Waterkick, Meteodrive, Dolphin Blow, Meteor Strike, Final Heaven

Equipment - God's Hand, Minerva Band, Circlet
Materia Equipped
Weapon - None
Armor -None

Yuffie - Lv 56
HP - 4048 MP - 468
Str - 69 | Dex - 59 | Vit - 64 | Mag - 109 | Spr - 72 | Luck - 28
Atk - 159/116% | Defense - 124/22% | Mg. Atk - 109 | Mg. Def - 72/0%

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

Equipment - Oritsuru, Minerva Band, Tetra Elemental
Materia Equipped
Weapon - None
Armor - None

Cait Sith - Lv 51
HP - 4360 MP - 439
Str - 59 | Dex - 42 | Vit - 57 | Mag - 89 | Spr - 68 | Luck - 25
Atk - 133/100% | Defense - 139/10% | Mg. Atk - 89 | Mg. Def - 68/0%

Limits - Dice

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

Materia Levels:
*Restore - Lv 5*
*Restore - Lv 5*
Revive - Lv 2
*Fire - Lv 4*
Fire - Lv 3
*Time - Lv 4*
*Earth - Lv 4*
Heal - Lv 2
*Seal - Lv 3*
Poison - Lv 2
Lightning - Lv 3
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 - 22/24 (Frog Song, L4 Suicide, Magic Hammer, White Wind, Big Guard, Angel Whisper, Dragon Force, Death Force, Flame Thrower, Laser, Matra Magic, Bad Breath, Beta, Aqualung, Trine, Magic Breath, ????, Goblin Punch, Chocobuckle, L5 Death, Death Sentence, Roulette)
Enemy Skill - 22/24 (Frog Song, L4 Suicide, Magic Hammer, White Wind, Big Guard, Angel Whisper, Dragon Force, Death Force, Flame Thrower, Laser, Matra Magic, Bad Breath, Beta, Aqualung, Trine, Magic Breath, ????, Goblin Punch, Chocobuckle, L5 Death, Death Sentence, Roulette)
Enemy Skill - 21/24 (Frog Song, L4 Suicide, Magic Hammer, White Wind, Big Guard, Angel Whisper, Dragon Force, Death Force, Flame Thrower, Laser, Matra Magic, Bad Breath, Beta, Aqualung, Trine, Magic Breath, ????, Goblin Punch, Chocobuckle, L5 Death, Death Sentence)
Enemy Skill - 20/24 (Frog Song, L4 Suicide, Magic Hammer, White Wind, Big Guard, Angel Whisper, Dragon Force, Death Force, Flame Thrower, Laser, Matra Magic, Beta, Aqualung, Trine, Magic Breath, ????, Goblin Punch, Chocobuckle, L5 Death, Death Sentence)
Sense - Lv 1
*Steal - Lv 3*
Throw - Lv 1
*Manipulate - Lv 2*
*Deathblow - Lv 2*
Morph - Lv 1
Double Cut - Lv 1
Mime - Lv 1
Slash-All - Lv 1
W-Item - Lv 1
W-Magic - Lv 1

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

Elemental - Lv 2
Elemental - Lv 2
*All - Lv 5*
All - Lv 4
All - Lv 4
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
Counter - Lv 1
Magic Counter - Lv 1

Choco/Mog - Lv 3
Shiva - Lv 4
*Ifrit - Lv 5*
Ramuh - Lv 2
Titan - Lv 2
Odin - Lv 3
Kjata - Lv 1
Bahamut - Lv 2
Alexander  - Lv 2
Neo Bahamut - Lv 1
Leviathan - Lv 2
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:

Starting off today with an editorial note. Since I'm getting so close to the end of Final Fantasy VII, obviously I went ahead and did a little testing to make sure everything would be smooth with my next project. So, went and transferred my Crisis Core iso over to my PSP and... crap.. apparently my Gen I PSP can't really handle the cutscenes in a way that's not completely annoying... the good news is that PSP emulator development has come a long way even in the relatively short amount of time I've been doing this, so I tested it out on my computer and of course it's fine...(seriously if I can't run a psp game on my laptop, I've got some serious problems down the road)

One more editorial note... I cleaned up the materia list a bit too, I'm no longer listing duplicate copies of materia I'm not planning on using or at least that aren't levelled up at all.

So, anyway, today we tied a lot of the loose ends up plotwise today... the rest of Shinra got its comeuppence. And of course, we've now seen the ends of both of Sephiroth's parents... which is really kind of weird when I think about it, I can't remember another Final Fantasy game where you interact so directly with the main villain's parents... am I wrong?

So, anyway, over to the Battle Square... ugh, what a time sink. I like the Battle Square as a concept. I really do, it is a great way for you to actually use all of the items you never want to use like X-Potions and Turbo Ethers... and ya know makes you battle in a way that makes you THINK!!! I had one set where I had no materia and a twice-broken weapon... going into my last fight... which at least I couldn't lose because it was against the sea-worm and I had earth nullifying armor on. But, it was going to take forever... time to take a look through the item list... ooh! M-Tentacles!!! See, you'd never use M-Tentacles normally... that's what makes it so great... I do cringe, however, on how long it is going to take me to get 64000 BP for W-Summon... which I do plan on getting before Emerald/Ruby...

So, that brings me to my goal for the day... I think I'm going to begin by taking out Ultimate Weapon... really not very difficult... This will at least get me a better weapon for Cloud for the Battle Square... then I may head back to the Northern Cave to do some AP/EXP training... I don't think I'm quite high enough for Emerald/Ruby yet, and I'd certainly like to master some HP Plus/MP Plus Materia before I go after it... once that's done its back to the battle square... I'd like to at least get a start there... we'll see how it goes...