Uploaded May 2009 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
Rules (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
No Accessories
No ???? (except for Jerseys and Demon's Gate)
No Goblin Punch
With ???? banned and no Bolt Ring, Materia Keeper gets a whole lot harder. Cloud and Aeris don't have enough MP to take him out with just Aqualung. Thankfully, he sometimes casts Trine on the first turn, allowing me to use it immediately. Why would I want that, you might ask? Well, Apathetic Aardvark (SineNomine) at GameFAQs did an extensive test of the E.Skills and found that where Aqualung did around 158 damage per MP in his test, Trine did 177 damage per MP, making it more efficient. If you wait around and use Aqualung until he uses Trine after Cure2, you'll either (A) run out of MP or (B) he'll use Cure2 again before you can kill him with Trine.
Strangely enough, I had been getting rotten luck with this battle up until this attempt. Materia Keeper kept ignoring Barret completely and just attacking Cloud/Aeris.
Cloud: Butterfly Edge, Bronze Bangle
Barret: Heavy Vulcan, Bronze Bangle
Aeris: Prism Staff, Bronze Bangle
Music: Cadillacs and Dinosaurs - (Stage 8 Scene 1)
Rules (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
No Accessories
No ???? (except for Jerseys and Demon's Gate)
No Goblin Punch
With ???? banned and no Bolt Ring, Materia Keeper gets a whole lot harder. Cloud and Aeris don't have enough MP to take him out with just Aqualung. Thankfully, he sometimes casts Trine on the first turn, allowing me to use it immediately. Why would I want that, you might ask? Well, Apathetic Aardvark (SineNomine) at GameFAQs did an extensive test of the E.Skills and found that where Aqualung did around 158 damage per MP in his test, Trine did 177 damage per MP, making it more efficient. If you wait around and use Aqualung until he uses Trine after Cure2, you'll either (A) run out of MP or (B) he'll use Cure2 again before you can kill him with Trine.
Strangely enough, I had been getting rotten luck with this battle up until this attempt. Materia Keeper kept ignoring Barret completely and just attacking Cloud/Aeris.
Cloud: Butterfly Edge, Bronze Bangle
Barret: Heavy Vulcan, Bronze Bangle
Aeris: Prism Staff, Bronze Bangle
Music: Cadillacs and Dinosaurs - (Stage 8 Scene 1)
