This is the one I've used the past two playthroughs. Works great and will get you the plat. A plat guide isn't going to help you know when and where to play cards within the walkthrough. This will.
Also, the only hidden trophy IIRC is being Omega. Everything else plainly says what you need to do. Some of that will be in the sidequest portion of that guide, but it's all there.
Plus it's not just exploring Squall's computer or other random hints, in fact! The second after you're promoted to SeeDs in Cid's office, one of the creepy Garden staff ominously warn you that "You should pay no attention whatsoever to criticism you hear out in the world about GFs causing memory loss." Shortly thereafter, Quistis and Squall both look blankly at Ellone in the training center a mere three hours into the game, who clearly remembers something they don't.
GF are only used by Balamb Garden. Most other places and Gardens disagree with it so every NPC having GF is extremely unlikely.
FFVII International is the normal FFVII that the English-speaking fans played though. They never got to play the original release that didn't have those extra sequences and that was Japan-exclusive.
Not many yet. There's a UI update and a Triple Triad Mod available. Not sure of any others. A version of 'Lunatic Pandora' - a multipurpose mod is in the works.
I wrote "junctioning NPC" to be specific.
Cid
Right, but it's just part of a sloppy use of GFs. Despite just playing the beginning of the game, I'm not sure if it's possible to play up to certain events without junctioning but there's nothing that shows us how necessary it is and obviously affected our main character is if two are hidden at his desk and not even equipped but we already forgot who these important people are.
Oh yes, I'm aware, I was just trying to underline that the original version of the game does such a poor job with memory issues that they literally had to add those two new scenes for it to make any sense at all, yet I've never noticed the same level of criticism in English for this game as in VIII.
Yes, but I also like the idea of character exclusive summons from IX but want it for all characters. Not sure how to make that engaging.
While this is mostly true there is something darker about it.
Yeah exactly.
No matter if people hate still end up hating or disliking it, I love seeing people give it another shot.
You need to Junction a GF to a character in order to unlock stats to boost. Shiva starts with STR-J which means if you equip her to a character(let's use Squall since he is always in party) you can now boost his strength with stocked magic. How you boost that strength is simply by selecting the open Strength stat (it will be white and have - - - -) and assigning magic to it.
The three moments before was also including that :P
Oh I fully understand that part of his character though him focusing so heavily on
I'm replaying for the first time since 2005 or so and haven't gotten beyond disc 1 yet, but my memory (GF dependent) is that
The only bummer is not getting the Supt-Mag-RF ability. It's makes getting a few magic really easy. But I think it's more important not to miss Eden and Alexander.
It was also number 6 for download only!
Don't worry about things like that. Gaining levels is not going to punish you unless you're grinding them out since enemies scale to average party level. Just play the game normally without heavy grinding because it's not the solution to overcome boss fights. There is also an ability that will let you turn off encounters all together which is useful for areas with annoyingly high encounter rates.
