Rules Reminder:
Low Level
Solo Character
No Scavenging
No Attack Command
No Non-Mandatory Inns
No Independent Materia
While in the Shinra Building, we can win the most important Materia in the challenge, the Elemental Materia, from Mayor Dominic. Red XIII also shows up with the "Let's kill Motor Ball" starter pack, including a free two-slot armour (the Mythril Bangle) and a free Fire Materia. With this, we can put Elemental-Fire in Aerith's armour. Rolling Fire is easily the strongest attack we've seen until this point, but with Fire resistance it isn't notable anymore.
IIRC this is the last fight where we're forced to enter with multiple characters alive. During the motorcycle minigame, we sandwich bikers between Cloud and the truck to take as much damage as possible before the actual fight. Then we kill off Cloud/Tifa as usual. I'm not sure why I was so conservative with the healing here, as this boss has no surprises. I also brought Tifa by mistake when it was supposed to be Barret on the floor, but thankfully that didn't ruin the EXP route or anything. I didn't notice that until hours later, so I didn't redo it.
With this fight done, we no longer need to worry about the Gil route anymore. We can buy a Steal Materia in Kalm and Steal items to sell anytime that we need Gil from now on.
6 май 2024
