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Feb 07, 09 06:50PMSoloris

WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS ***

Final Fantasy VII challanges are not for the faint of heart, or the casual FF7 player. But they can be one of the most rewarding games you can play if you are up for the challange.

Let's start with the basics. These are the most common types of challanges:

LL: Low Level. No characters are allowed to exceed 30. You will need to run from normal encounters and only level up when absolutly nessisary to beat a boss.

NM: No Materia. No Materia is allowed at all through the course of the game. You must trash any materia you receve in the game, it cannot be sold for gil. Any char who has materia when they join your party cannot use it in a battle and it must be de-equipped and trashed as soon as possible.
(Yes that means you can't use the chocobo lure to get past the Midgar Zolom. But if you don't want to level up endlessly to beat it there is an easier way, Just run halfway through the swamp and enter the menu before the Zolom reaches you then save and restart, You will be able to run the rest of the way without the Zolom catching you)

NI: No Items. No items can be used in battle.Exceptions are Key Items, batteries, and the save crystal.

IE: Initial Equip. You may only use the weapon and armor the character had when they first entered your party (I.e. Buster Sword and Bronze Bangle for cloud) Weapons and armor you aquire during the course of the game may be sold.

NA: No Accessories. Accessories can never be equiped. They may be sold for gil.

SC: Single Character. You can only use one char in battle throughout the game. The other two chars must be killed asap and you cannot attack any monsters until you have only one char alive.

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Uncommon challanges: these are usually used in conjunction with the more common challanges.

NNMI: No Non_Mandatory Inns. You are not allowed to use Inns or tents.

NE: No Escaping. You are not allowed to escape during battle.

LE: Lowest exp. You must have the lowest exp possible after beating Jenova-SYNTHESIS.

MO: Materia Only. You may only use Materia. You can't attack or use items.

IO: Items Only. You may only use items. Starts as soon as you can buy Grenaids.

CMO: Command Materia Only. You can only use Command Materia. This may not interfere with other rules, for example if you are doing a NI as well you may not usw W-Item.

MMO: Magic Materia Only. Same as above except with Magic Materia.

NES: No Enemy Skills.

L1L: Level one limits. You can only use Level one Limits.

NLB: No Limit Breaks

NPA: No Physical Attacks. You may not use the attack command in battle.

NS: No Shops. You are only allowed to use items you find or win in the game. (this ecnompasses everything from trivial items like Spider Web to some of the most powerful weapons and materia in the game, like Ultima Weapon and Knights of the Round)

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Thread Recap (last 10 posts from newest to oldest)

Dec 16, 09 12:38PMMeteor

I don't know tbh, but it works with Sneak Attack, so i guess healing stuff is allways used on the characters, when used automatically.

Dec 16, 09 12:08PMEpoch

quote Meteor
So Initial Equip does not forbid accessoires, eh?

I just got the idea, that you could combine Magic Counter and Restore, to have a nice "Auto-Potion" ability, then just wait until the Limit Break fills up.

that would heal the enemy.

i think.

Dec 16, 09 11:47AMMeteor

So Initial Equip does not forbid accessoires, eh?

I just got the idea, that you could combine Magic Counter and Restore, to have a nice "Auto-Potion" ability, then just wait until the Limit Break fills up.

Dec 04, 09 03:17PMSoloris

--SCIE Update--

This is an update on my SCIE game (im also giving the thread a slight boost

)

Iv made it to the third disk, Right now Cloud is level 55. The first time i decended into the crater I got slaughtered, There are too many creatures that can kill you with one hit so I went to the Gold Saucer and got Clouds Lvl 4 limit break, and im going to go get Ribbon because I dont have one yet. For now Im just using vacseens (yes im a horrible speller, dont judge me) in place of the ribbon but iv found that it has a few loopholes, there are a few chances that you can be poisoned or bezerked and if that happens, because of the vacseen, you cant cure it (the frogs can turn you into a frog and that is espessially frustrating because you cant cure it).

The two materia I use are Enemy Skill and HP plus. Magic breath is my major attack, and Big Guard works wonders.

I may have to level up to 60 or so before i delve back in to the abyss so i can withstand some of the attacks, ill keep you all posted.

Aug 19, 09 08:10AMSoloris

quote downgraded286
For single character should it be only one character throughout the entire game or choose any one character from your current party?

One character throughout the game, say you wanted to do a cloud game, use only cloud, all others in your party should be koed. If you wanted to do a Cid game, pick a single char to use until you get cid in your party.

Also, make sure you use multiple saves for your game, because these things take so much effort it is deviatating to accidently erase it, I know because I was working on just a reg game the other day and accidently saved over my SCIE game, lucally I had a back up save on my other card and only lost 2 or 3 hours of work, it still put me on the first disk again, but in the temple of the ancients so ill be back on the second disk shortly.

I will put your no shops in the list.

Aug 19, 09 06:25AMdowngraded286

Here's an idea... NS: No Shops. You are only allowed to use items you find or win in the game. (this ecnompasses everything from trivial items like Spider Web to some of the most powerful weapons and materia in the game, like Ultima Weapon and Knights of the Round).

Aug 18, 09 02:27AMdowngraded286

I'm going to do an IE run after I beat the game I'm on now. Betcha I can still kill Emmy and Ruby

For single character should it be only one character throughout the entire game or choose any one character from your current party?

Jul 03, 09 09:45PMSoloris

Finally I got to disk 2 on my SCIE game, granted I did take a 2 month break from it but hey I'm still happy about it. Zidane gave me the info I needed to beat the jenova boss at the end of disk one (he gave me the location of the water ring acc which makes your char imprervious to all of jenovas att)

STATS: Cloud lvl 35.

Jun 26, 09 07:08PMxxzidanexx

I might try a FF7 challenge. I have an NSG game on FFX and im stuck on the last boss(go figure) but it was pretty fun to do

Jun 26, 09 06:43PMUnderground2012

I have done NI, IE, NA, SC, NNMI, NES, NE (easily). NM seems realyl hard I might try it but then again that doesnt make it much fun, I like to enjoy my game as well as the challenge so if the challenge is really boring for me I don't really like to even attempt it, also LL seems really difficult.

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