Cait Sith giving tips before starting Hard Mode

Step 1 to getting through hard mode:
 -make the equipment that you can only obtain by getting materials from mid-to-late hard mode chapters 😂

if you're good enough to get the gotterdammerung, congratulations you clearly don't need it for hard mode.

Tip number 7 pick up smoking

Another tips:  you can actually restore hp and mp using cushion in Hard mode. Also use a non party member to restore if needed to save mp in your team.

I wish for people that suck at mini-games (raises hand) they gave you another way to obtain those high reward items eg. Dark Matter by placing them in stores and make them super expensive, I'm literally drowning in Gil. If they put them in the Gold Saucer shops you could just farm coins by repeating arena fights.

I hate that they don’t have the whole just swap material load outs like the OG. It seems really easy just to add this but for some reason they make u manually each single materia swap them.

Very good tips!

One tip I should add is if don't have the Gotterdanmerung yet it is also worth getting the ribbon accessory as well via the 3D Sephiroth fight. It not only makes you immune to  detrimental status effects but prevents you from being interrupted when casting spells.

Perfect for Aerith or even Barret imo

The best way to max material is to do the cat quest in nibleheim and kill the bees.  Then don’t kill the queen bee so she summons guard bees over and over.  No joke, you get hundreds of ap every few minutes.

Very good information about hard mode. I'm currently doing a hard mode run and it's very frustrating at times but this video helps.

Just finished the game with playing ONLY Zack in the party (Cheat engine). It feels so good knowing that the game is beatable even without changing your build every single stage..

Exploding Yuffie build is very fun and OP.

After finishing all the VR challenges, hard mode is pretty much a cakewalk😂

Super helpful! Thx for the tips...

Thank you so much. I only had 1 side mission left but reset them all. Was lucky to go back and start a save with the right setting cos of this video

Great tips!

Get goterdemurg is a hell trial

A salute to all of us who raw dogged hard mode with no genji equipment no gotter no ribbons and no advanced expeditionary medal 😂

You can also do the first round of the Unending Nightmare Brutal VR Mission which has an Elephadunk and Queen Bee. The only drawback is the only people who receive XP are the characters you play with rather than all party members.

That is another tip: when you are fighting non-VR or non-Colosseum battles, all party members receive XP (just like OG FF VII). So, EQUIP MATERIA on the characters you are not playing with, and the materia will receive the same amount of AP as the materia you have equipped with the party members you are playing with.

Chapter 14 hard left, have a save afterwhite ghosts fight. Lifeclinger knocking me into its red laser after blizzaga....this is block timing but it is frenetic and dont play tired (big tip). i can get better builds so glad I saved at the place I did.