Uploaded April 2009 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
Rules of the challenge (beginning once you reach the world map):
No materia except Enemy Skill
No attacks/limits
No items
No non-mandatory inns
Initial Armor
Start the challenge at level 15
You can't use ???? in random encounters
Between Demon's Gate and Jenova Life is the best grinding opportunity in the game. You're healed once after Demon's Gate, once when you sleep overnight digging for the Lunar Harp, and again when you sleep at the Forgotten Capital to open the way to Jenova Life. Naturally I take advantage of this by fighting the Battery Caps in the Nibel Forest before the Lunar Harp, and then fighting the Boundfats/Mall Dancers in the first screen after the forest that the Lunar Harp opens. This is why Cloud has double the HP he had in the previous video. Also, I pick up the third E.Skill and get Beta/Aqualung for it.
After that, however is the hardest journey in the game. You don't get healed again until the execution, so you've got to go through Jenova Life, the Glacier/Gaea's Cliff, Schizo, the Whirlwind Maze, and Jenova Death. For this reason, I don't have Cloud use any E.Skills to save his MP, and since this is an easy battle, the party members are the two worst non-Tifa magic users. The only way they can die is if Jenova Life uses Aqualung twice, which actually did happen on the first attempt.
Also, I didn't know until now that you can exit the Forgotten Capital after sleeping at the house but before fighting Jenova Life. I use this to my advantage and give everyone sadness.
Cloud: Yoshiyuki, Bronze Bangle, Water Ring
Barret: Heavy Vulcan, Bronze Bangle, Earring
Yuffie: Pinwheel, Carbon Bangle, Earring
Music: FF III/VI - (underwater theme)
Rules of the challenge (beginning once you reach the world map):
No materia except Enemy Skill
No attacks/limits
No items
No non-mandatory inns
Initial Armor
Start the challenge at level 15
You can't use ???? in random encounters
Between Demon's Gate and Jenova Life is the best grinding opportunity in the game. You're healed once after Demon's Gate, once when you sleep overnight digging for the Lunar Harp, and again when you sleep at the Forgotten Capital to open the way to Jenova Life. Naturally I take advantage of this by fighting the Battery Caps in the Nibel Forest before the Lunar Harp, and then fighting the Boundfats/Mall Dancers in the first screen after the forest that the Lunar Harp opens. This is why Cloud has double the HP he had in the previous video. Also, I pick up the third E.Skill and get Beta/Aqualung for it.
After that, however is the hardest journey in the game. You don't get healed again until the execution, so you've got to go through Jenova Life, the Glacier/Gaea's Cliff, Schizo, the Whirlwind Maze, and Jenova Death. For this reason, I don't have Cloud use any E.Skills to save his MP, and since this is an easy battle, the party members are the two worst non-Tifa magic users. The only way they can die is if Jenova Life uses Aqualung twice, which actually did happen on the first attempt.
Also, I didn't know until now that you can exit the Forgotten Capital after sleeping at the house but before fighting Jenova Life. I use this to my advantage and give everyone sadness.
Cloud: Yoshiyuki, Bronze Bangle, Water Ring
Barret: Heavy Vulcan, Bronze Bangle, Earring
Yuffie: Pinwheel, Carbon Bangle, Earring
Music: FF III/VI - (underwater theme)
