Final Fantasy VII

PlayStation

Rooreelooo 8 Feb 2025 22:13

good damn it. TWO times now i have done this only for it not too pop. the most boring and stupid achievement in the world and now i have to try it a third time. i have no idea what's going wrong here, i have followed the instructions in the description exactly:
- all done in one session
- in battle no actions taken except for magic materia and defend
- not running from a single encounter
- not restoring mp at all

is there some extra requirement here that isn't listed? am i supposed to perfectly nail the rolling rock puzzle without getting squished or something? or collect all the overworld items? im on duckstation and i know that achievements are active because i got the bahamut one and the story one where aeris leaves the party afterwards, but not this one.

where about is it supposed to pop? after killing demon wall, or after all the cutscenes?

JRodslegend 8 Feb 2025 22:51

No materia equipped at all except magic. Is the only thing I can think of that you didn’t mention.
Should get an achievement icon in the bottom right if you have everything setup correctly as soon as you enter the temple to avoid running the whole thing over.
Also no healing from the guys that heal you. And I want to say using items at all is restricted, HP or MP. But that might have just been my paranoia not wanting to chance anything

Rooreelooo 9 Feb 2025 10:39

ok, thank you for clarifying that jrodslegrnd. i know what i did wrong now - i had been equipping a few hp plus materias and summon materias just for the stat benefits. i interpreted 'using magic materia only' as only referring to the actions selected, i didn't consider it would extend to stat benefits as well. redid it with nothing but green materia equipped and it popped for me.

JRodslegend 9 Feb 2025 17:10

Awesome! And it’s ok, I had the exact same thing happen to me. Had to scroll up 160 some comments to get it clarified lol

Sistik123 10 Feb 2025 14:25

Yes, have NOTHING but Magic Materia equipped and have all you can as well for the extra mp.

loganizer 26 Feb 2025 15:52

Luckily I found this out very early but healing with items outside of combat voids this. Used a potion after the first random fight and the challenge deactivated.

xKayra 3 Mar 2025 01:33

45 wall damage with spell 1 is badass. I'll have to level up to 50 apparently.

xKayra 3 Mar 2025 04:04

Up cloud, aerith and vincent, and it was easy, vincent was still petrified.

Grandirus 24 Mar 2025 00:19

Failed right after picked up "Morph" materia.
"Lucky Plus" don't faill the chevo.
Weird...
Hehe

Rektboy 5 Apr 2025 19:49

I must have had 10 attempts and gone crazy. I had overlooked the fact that SLOW makes sense and had to grind Time materia again. After that I managed it on the first try.
I then went in again with the following stats and used kevinmk760's guide as a reference:

Cloud lv55 738 MP
Aeris l54 759 MP
Vincent lv55 703 MP

Red Dragon: Only used Poison1 once or twice, 1slow, and then only ever used defense or cure1. Gravity does not work... :D

Demon's Gate:
Cloud makes Poison, Aries or Vincet Slow and then each Haste.
Then I ALWAYS cast Bolt3, Fire3 or Ice3. And then used Cure1 to heal. Because I always did about 440 damage, I didn't think it was necessary to use LV1 spells.
Everyone had 200 MP left and no one was a stone (luckily)

Everyone also had Revive equipped just in case.

flglm 5 May 2025 07:31

what the actual fuck is this achievement - you need to know not to sell any of your equipment from the very start of the game? what the actual fuck.

should be nuked from the set

FBernkastelKues 5 May 2025 11:05

That hasn't been needed for almost a year now, try to keep up.

flglm 5 May 2025 12:49

okay it's still a ludicrous, anti-fun makework achievement that doesn't belong in a core set for an extremely popular game

Mhulme 9 May 2025 14:50

Followed kevinmk760's plan with the time materia - one thing I had to change was to add esuna to combat petrification. I got hit with petrification more than 20 times, which also took away sadness (or maybe that was esuna?) - but in either case it was 100% required to survive the battle.

MickeyQwality 10 May 2025 02:11

This achievement has randomly deactivated when returning to the clock room twice now-- once from room VII, once from room V. Second deactivation seemed to happen during the green flash. Can that room just randomly heal you sometimes, is that why it cancelled the cheevo?

MickeyQwality 10 May 2025 03:09

Do yourself a favor: Just ignore the treasures while doing this, then reset your save to get them afterwards. It's not worth trying to get them together lol

KhobarKast 25 May 2025 21:57

Entered with these and did it first try thanks to all the little tricks.

Cloud 46 - Aeris 39 - Vincent 40
Sprint Shoes - White Cape / Ribbon (once obtained) - Jem Ring
Restore on everyone, everyone at least 1 standard offensive spell (Fire / Lightning / Ice), Heal (Esuna!) on anyone but Cloud, Bio on Cloud, Time on anyone, rest filled with all Magic materia you have (ideally something like Time for more MP)
All in the back row and Sadness

Bio1 / Defend / Cure1 your way to the Ribbon, then the same all the way to the Gate. Yes, even with the Dragon. I had like 3 encounters total.
Gate: Slow on the Gate once. Then just an endless barrage of Fire1/Ice1/Lightning1, cure when a double rock fall could kill a person (for me that was anything <1050HP on Aeris). Stick to your guns, trust that the MP will be enough thanks to all the increases from the magic materia and just stick with it. Got lucky that the Wall never tried to petrify Cloud, but Esuna was there as well in case that would happen.