Twenty Things the Game Does Not Tell You

Twenty tips

• Towers first in every region. The map is empty until you climb one.
• Assess is a spell you cast once per enemy type, forever. Cast it.
• Dynamic difficulty exists because people over-explore; use it.
• Party conversations before leaving Kalm, the beach and Gongaga village feed the Gold Saucer date. Talk to everyone.
• The date has six possible companions. Nothing else in the story branches.
• Magnify plus Healing is the first link to build and the last to remove.
• Elemental materia on armour, matched to the region's boss, is the cheapest hard-mode trick there is.
• Weapons level with you; change them for abilities, not numbers.
• Master a weapon ability before switching, then keep the weapon in the bag for its materia slots.
• Synergy skills cost nothing. If you finished Remake never using them, this is the game that makes them matter.
• Chocobo stops are fast travel. Repair every one you pass.
• Summon crystals weaken the summon fight. Three found, and the fight is a formality.
• Queen's Blood decks want territory before power. Cheap cards first.
• Johnny's inn tracks everything. Check it before a completion sweep to see what is actually left.
• Cactuar Crush stops at part two until chapter 12. That is not a bug.
• Can't Stop Won't Stop is the last quest and needs the other 35.
• Chapter 12 is the completion chapter. The open world stays open into chapter 13, until the temple.
• Chapter select after the credits keeps everything, including on hard.
• Hard mode: no items, no MP refill at rest points. Build for MP, not damage.
• Nothing is missable. The only thing you can lose is time.

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