The party you get for the 3-member fight depends on how close they are to you throughout the game. Put Magnify + Barrier on one of the members you get in the Bahamut Arisen fight.
Yup, looks like it was a fluke though since they started dodging on all of the runs after I commented. Thanks for the guide, go through hard mode with your help on this fight!
Brutal. Not sure whats worse though, dying 20 times or finally deciding to go back phases so you can change your equipment. Getting personal, I hate this MF.
I genuinely hope whoever thought of still having boss cutscenes be unskippable doesn’t work on part 3. I’m not saying they have to be fired just keep them away from the dev team.
Phenomenal Video. FYI, in the final battle with Aerith during The End is Nigh phase, I would stagger him then use Ascension and a couple Bravers but still kept getting wiped by an instakill Octoslash. Instead, I repeatedly used Spellblade the entire phase through all the chaos. Not only did it keep Aerith alive, but I easily killed him in one attempt without even staggering him. Highly recommend this strategy for those struggling like I was during that final 10% of his health.
That phase goes super quick with finishing touch +/- aga spell depending on sephiroths health at the start of the phase. Just conserve the atb bars and full limit when you reach the threshold health. I personally have enhanced expeditionary medal and limit siphon on cloud. It also makes the earlier fights go quick since all the party members start with a full limit just use cloud to siphon off them. Having gotterdamerung on Aerith you can do guaranteed at least 3 finishing touches in that fight with limit siphon
You're a good man. Honestly I needed the raid style breakdown, struggled for a couple of attempts, watched your explanation? EZ GG. Thanks! Have my sub
Thanks again for your hard mode boss guides. I went into this fight with what I thought was a bad materia setup. I had Healing-Magnify on Cloud instead of Aerith because I was getting wrecked in the very first phase where Cloud and Zack are fighting together. I had Healing-Auto Cast on Aerith and boy did it surprise me how useful that was! Since you're controlling Cloud most of the time, the auto healing spells coming in after taking some damage was so helpful. Your guide was especially helpful learning how to dodge all of Sephiroth's moves. What I would do after pressuring him by interrupting his Whisper Cannon with Spell Blade is immediately use Focused Thrust with Cloud, then switch to Aerth and cast Fira inside of Arcane Ward (if she wasn't inside the ward I would ward shift her there first), then use Focused Thrust with Cloud a second time. If timed correctly, this is a guaranteed Stagger. Then when I had him staggered, I'd use Spell Blade twice and finish with Braver unless I had the synergy ability that would raise their limit level. Getting them to Level 3 limits before the final phase is crucial, and I suggest saving Aerith's limit for the end in case you get there and Cloud doesn't have his limit. In the endgame phase I had Cloud at about 90% limit but Aertih's was full, so I used hers, then got Cloud up close to Sephiroth and used his. This brought Sephiroth to like 1% HP, and I had 2 ATB so I immediately cast a Firaga with Cloud to finish him off. I'm mildly upset Sephiroth robbed me of a level 3 limit break finishing move but I'll take the win. Glad to be done with hard mode, it was so challenging but so rewarding to have completed it. I uploaded my gameplay of the final round for anyone wanting another look at it, credit was given to this channel for the main strategy th-cam.com/video/8U8Es7ZeRfA/w-d-xo.html
Very informative and details, thank you for taking your time to make the guide and upload it. chapter 14 and struggle with jenova now XD, still those chains battle make me want to look for guide because it take so much time if the player failed :(
I really don’t like the random grouping across some of these final bosses, it takes away from the strategy element and on hard mode you really need to cater your build specifically for the boss.
Same here :( The moment I saw it I knew that I have to restart, as none of those characters had barrier on them. With this, I wonder what will be the lineup for phase with switching elements - I have no idea what I'll do without yuffie there
If one really wants to play it safe and not restart the hard mode gauntlet after difficult fights you can do the chapter in easy fly through it and see the order then restart it in hard. I think it’s based on character relationships so if you restart it should be exactly the same. It wouldn’t change unless you went through the story and changed those factors. I did chapter 14 hard 5 times last couple days and it was always the same order.
Thanks for the guide. I've been so stressed out over Brutal 6 in the battle simulator and took a break from grinding it to finish up the main story on Hard mode. This made the final sequence easier! Why couldn't Brutal 6 have checkpoints like this series of battles..? T_T
Yes, same here. Tried everything but does not work without the barrier. So they force you to start all over again? Really? Thats complete crap, no? Especially if next time you randomly start with anothet character which maybe hasnt the barrier? That’s really a disappointing thing in this game.
If you suck at dodging (like me) Aerith’s Planet Protection level 2 limit is great for the final fight. Nothing funnier than getting hit by Skewer just to see the sword impale you with “immune” popping up. The protection doesn’t last very long though.
Bro thank you so much for the guide. It took me about 3 hours as I somehow forgot to put revive on Cloud for the final fight. I kept losing due to Heartless Angel and then his follow up attack killing Aerith. No way was I gonna go back through all those fights to change martia. Somehow got super lucky on the fight i did win, as I used Aerith's limit Break just as he cast it, which made her immune as she was in the animation. Then followed your advice for the octoslash move. She died during the final move, but Cloud has enough ATB to use Inifity's End once he staggered and that was it. Oh and one thing, during the Bahamut fight, I had Cait Sith instead of Barret. Didn't matter too much as Tifa is my main so this stage of the fight was a breeze. Just though I'd mention it in the future in case anyone wants to put magnify-barrier on Cait Sith as well as Barret, in case it happens to you too. Thanks again bro.
Hi. Sephiroth's beam slashes are counterfire-able. Works in the Zack or Aerith duo fights. Thanks buddy. The breakdown of the moves really helped. For the next installment, I hope we can get a combat sim function that lets us fight against a single boss just so we can study their moves. Barret was my last man standing in the elemental wing phase. I had 1k Hp left Sephiroth went into his spinning hadouken mode. Had to pause and watch this part in your vid, then saw I had two ATBs and I can focus thrust 🤣 Nail-biter. Haha. Once again, thank you man!!! On to the last Chadley mission for the Plat! ❤
don’t even need to heal after heartless angel, you should have a limit break ready and then a level 3 magic. will clean it up. this is for max relationships
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Very well made guide. I’m gonna be honest, I forgot to put a heal on Cloud, so I kept dying to the second phase of Sephiroth Reborn. 😂 This was super useful for dealing with him during Bahamut. I usually keep barrier on Barret or Red, but I’d have likely kept dying to Gigaflares and trying to raise my way through it. My tifa build was broken though, so as long as I got Unfettered Fury off, I’d break the wings in one Divekick each. Also really nice use of spell blade. I never really used those ones much because of the charge times, but they are very nice damage when you can find an opening. Thanks for the tips! 🫡 Hard Mode done! Last two Legendary Bouts to go! 🎉
Grats. The Sephy one is pretty easy, but the Zack took me several attempts. I also favor Spellblade/Powercleave since it does about as much as Braver, but w/ 0 ATB cost. It actually builds almost 1 full bar on Cloud + partner.
Thanks man- this literally got me through the 10 million phases. Got the hard mode trophy finally. Now its just the chadley simulations and ghost ship.
Ahh I had Yuffie in both parts so the elemental thing wasn’t so bad piece of cake - and won the rest of the bosses overall 🥳👍 2 vr missions left to goooo
I think those bahamut/seph wing fights are semi preformed, tifa/cait for the 1st and red/barret for the 2nd seem to be static and the 3rd member seems to be whichever one you took on a date or possibly next highest excluding the 2 that are already there. Maybe not the date, but it seems to have something to do with affection in some way. Either that or it's completely random and a coincidence who I got on multiple playthroughs.
@@FaelonZ Question for you. For the the "it's those stupid wings!" (color changing) phase, I have watched videos from 10+ different people, and Yuffie is in the party 100% of the time. Have you seen a video where Yuffie is NOT available for the color changing wings part? It's driving me nuts!
I did not have Barrett for the Bahamut arisen fight…and so no barrier…so they really force you to restart again? (As instanr dead always for me) So how furthermore you know in advance to equip whom with the barrier??? That’s really badly done. Frustrating
agreed, apparently he stops casting gigaflare during the cast if you hit him enough, completely baffled on my clear. And that was after going back to the zack/cloud fight so I could add barrier=magnify to someone. The group seems to be static to your save file, so you can prog it with some foresight once you've seen it. It's just kinda frustrating not being able to swap loadouts until after you know and having to do other fights again leading up to it. I thought for sure the gimmick is to stagger him before he gets the cast off, which gives you maybe like 20-30s depending on how much shit he does before gigaflare, but yeah no clue he just stopped casting it midway through me punching him and shit and then just started doing the dive attack again. I'm like whatever I just wanna be done with this roller coaster of a fight already lmao. Jenova was bad enough with sheer randomness of the attacks, just random lasers throughout the entire fight, I've still no idea how to dodge some of the red death laser attacks, the camera is awful in that fight lol.
You can also counter fire during the end is nigh. It does a huge amount of damage and makes your character immune to projectile damage. I didn’t know you could double thrust him. That was super cool. I kept getting hit by the upwards shooting beams but the main horizontal one which does huge damage, I counter fired it twice and it did enough to kill him. Super nice. I never thought about using spell blade, that was great haha. And strangely I only saw him using Octoslash after the end is nigh, never just randomly. It was a good boss fight. Not too random as you said and challenging without being cheap and unfun. What an end to an amazing game. Platinum trophy after 195 hours finally haha
My character with Mag + manawall was absent from the buhamut fight. Yuffie was absent from the element al weakness fight. Wth dude lol still finished it but damn im glad it's over
Is this easier than the vr challanges? Ive passed those but kinda dreading this since seph likes to use heartless angel and throw bahamut at a random team group. Is it possible to edit materia between phases and can you edit between jenova and sephiroth? Its basically just a boss gauntlet on final chapter
Imho, the final set of Sephiroth fights are much easier than the Legendary VR Bouts w/ Cloud + Zack. And you cannot edit materia from the Jenova fight onwards.
@@TSouL22 Not true, you can hold square during the cutscene before the Zack & Cloud v. humanoid Sephiroth fight to access the equipment and materia menu. After that point, however, you have no chances that I'm aware of
Is there a way to know who will join in the battle. Seeing a lot of People saying they got other charakters then yours. And do you have a video for the whispers before the final battle?
@@kyeda 😂 I feel you. Somewhat got used to him in his Legendary Bout, but I agree his battle system isn’t the most intuitive and the tutorials for him are just as bad as Zack and Sephiroth.
If you don’t want to waste time going through the fights and starting over you can always breeze through it on easy and then restart in hard it’ll be the same one
Made it all the way to cloud, aerith vs sephiroth and hit the wrong restart. Had to start completely over. Now bahamut arisen is one hitting me with gigaflare
Definitely earned a sub here.. I’m not sure y but Rebirth is stomping me for most of the hard content. I have no doubt some of these guides will help me understand what I’m doing wrong / not grasping. I went through normal mode without a single go screen (the last DPS check by Seph almost got me) so the difficulty spike has been jarring “for me.” Ty for the time and effort! (Do you plan on doing guides for all chapter bosses?)
Stomping other than the last fight nothing is difficult. And if you fight 2 enemies that is rude and elena for example just use sleep on one of them easy and go by the enemy intel every time. And as far as fighting enemies are concerned just run past them in most of the game I had to fight enemies like 3 times only other than bosses.
The final phase is honestly such bullshit. It took me 9 attempts and on four of these attempts, he used Heartless Angel and IMMEDIATELY used a move that would kill me before I could Curaga. I began just saving my stupid limit for the stupid attack so I could be immune and survive and Aerith could heal herself. Dunno how this fight is doable without Gotterdammerung, good fucking luck cause I needed every single limit for immunity.
Me too lmao it kinda threw me off - I was kinda counting on her ninjutsu for the next part but she showed up early. and now I probably won’t have her for the next phase.. took a break at start of Zack solo part bout to go back in and finish 🙏🤞🤞🤞
Boy oh boy someone should put up a fight against white whispers guide in chapter 14 cause they will take all you party mp before you can even fight sephiroth.
bro.........i got a little far in chapter 14 then looked at my mp.. i was like wtf? i know i didnt use a single spell... then started the chapter over and was like "ohhhhh these things steal your mp" 😂😂😭😭
My AI refuses to dodge either the whisper cannons or whirlwinds like they do in your video... it's driving me nuts, I have no idea how to get them to do better lol, they always insta-die whenever he pulls one out
I conserve my atb during the fight and wait for openings like whisper cannon whirlwind or octoslash to pressure him. If you don’t have the atb it’s tough. It’s super easy to do it this way. I do double fira for octoslash I have swiftcast plus fire and fire plus magic focus on cloud
So when you use Spell Blade over his Octaslash, does that mean you wait and it’ll strike on the fullest damage on its’s own? Or do you eventually have to let go to unleashed the most damage so that you don’t look like an idiot waiting too long but at a cost?
@@TSouL22 Alright. Well hopefully it all works out. I managed to give him enough damage to not get to that moment. But it’s nice to learn how to avoid severe damage when it occurs. Thank you for all your help.
@@TSouL22 Alright I finished it. The Octaslash situation I handled it differently. But this guide helped either way. I was working with what I got as well as your suggestions, and wasn’t sure if I could managed with some of these phrases. If there’s one thing I learned more than ever is precision timing.
I do double firas for octoslash on masamune and wing. I think it’s easier to do this fight saving your atbs in anticipation for the whisper cannon or whirlwind or octoslash. I did chapter 14 hard 3 times last night
Hold up... It says on the bahamut arisen you're locked to tifa, Barrett and Cait sith, but my Barrett has been replaced by yuffie and lemme tell you.. it is A HINDRANCE
Good video. Don't know mann they gave me red instead of gun boy so I don't know what's going on. B safe n I don't have Barrier on red I guess I have to start over that sucks ;) am in hard mode to
It took me about 5 hours to clear Jenova and Sephiroth. And 3 of those hours were the final phase of Sephiroth. Hard mode kicked my ass and I had to dig really deep as a gamer to clear some of these bosses. In a way I'm proud of myself for pulling it off but not gonna lie it was a lot of stress. Gi Nattak, Galian Beast and Rufus really frustrated me. A lot of times I got super close to winning and but was so low on HP I got one shotted. Just wanted you to know you're not alone in taking a long time to KO this boss, it's super tough. Hopefully you beat him already but if not good luck and you got this!
@@BlitzHavenDirEnGrey6 ah i see. Whenever his wing or sword is vunerable, blast it with a lightning attack to weaken him. Save your limit breaks and cast them as he is doing the heartless attack. This will make you invunerable.
The unskippable cutscenes after dying and having to restart the whole fight from the beginning is VERY annoying. Why can't I just restart that fight part? No I have to replay the Cloud and Zack fight again, and again, again, and again, and again.
If you pick the top option when restarting it takes you to the cutscene where the group kill bizarro Sephiroth and Aerith appears for the duo fight. Stupidly you can't skip the cutscene, but you shouldn't have to redo it from the Zack bit at all.
Bro i really strugle the firsts phases, my team composition was diferent and i get caitsit twice when he was the one with less materia equiped x_X ... glad that after zack everything was fine >0< Zack phase is almost free, next i get yuffie barret and red, 2 tanks for yuffie... and for the final phase i had both over equiped xDD I had cloud with the amulet to max his limit, and idk how but i used it almost at the end to prevent his death, during the animation cast meteor with tifa, and when sephi enter in his damage check last phase i had the 3º limit again with cloud ... not sure why but thanks god :)) Thanks fo the tips!
Fuck this fight, it’s super cheap, I didn’t have issues to the last part of the last form, it took me a good 3 hours and not in a fun souls/Sekiro type way but a bullshit why did I keep getting 1 shot. I had to turn my power bar into 3 forms and then just hit I’m with soul drain 3 times healing wind to heal both of us and finally braver and firaga to finish them off. Fuck that shit.
🤦🏽♂️took all the materia off Aerith since you know she died then now I’m locked in this battle with her 😑 also didn’t put access on every party memeber chapter select on easy to access everyone will be the move after this
Yeah the last part of Sephiroth isnt that bad. Its mainly just remember to have ATB to heal. The End is Nigh phase had me shook so I just saved my limit breaks and ATB so that I could triple slash 2x and then Finishing Strike LB to guarantee victory. Its almost the same in yhe simulator from what I can see. Gilgamesh looks qay tougher
I'm sorry but 1 those 3 are not who you get for bahamut, and 2 having to know ahead of time to bring barrier on the random 3 people you don't know you're gonna control ahead of time is just bad game design. The boss looks like he can be pressured before doing the gigaflare, but you only have like 20 seconds to do so. I can get him to about 4/5 on the pressure gauge at most out of yuffie, tifa, and cait sith which is the 3 I had for this. I would've loved to have barret because he can actually push the pressure gauge very well. But if you're telling me the mechanic is simply "use manaward on everyone and tank the attack" 3 bosses into the gauntlet with random people in the group then yeah that's just a poorly designed fight. I wanna enjoy these games but man they are dropping the ball hard on some of these fights with the randomness to the fights. Jenova had a barrage of completely random attacks with just laser light show dodge fest I never knew when something was gonna shoot me. Some attacks I can dodge but others seemed completely random. And you don't know who's gonna be in your team. It's just poorly done, but man this "use manaward" is just ass I'm sorry but it is. Edit: After having finished this fight (initially came looking for help to beat the bahamut portion), apparently bahamut just decides to stop casting gigaflare if he's hit enough during the cast, actually no clue at all why that happens. Surely the gimmick is to build enough pressure to stagger him within the 20-30s time limit before he casts gigaflare, or rather before it goes off. In my clear however he just kinda stops casting it mid-cast I was completely dumbfounded, this was after I went back to the zack/cloud fight so I could reset loadout to put barrier=magnify on someone, and didn't even need it apparently lol. Who knows, some shit they do in this game just baffle me, makes absolutely no sense, love it and enjoyed my time but good god are there a lot of glaring issues lol
I kept getting to Bahamut but I keep getting Red and Cat. Why did they destroy this FF part so brutally? As far as I'm concerned, they can add a hundred characters that you can control yourself, but what's with this crap with the trust %? Just leave it out, I can't finish the game because of it. Above all, Cat doesn't even have a trust %, so why does he appear, wtf? Was the creator high? I'm finishing it from Bahamut. Since this game is a terrible failure, I'm leaving it at that. I'm definitely not going to spend my whole life trying to get Barret. I don't have enough material to fill 7 characters and I don't want to take a chance on the hope of getting the right one. As far as I'm concerned, you can do it all like that and I would overlook it if you could change your set up before the fight. But since you're playing on luck here and don't even get a gold trophy for it if you play on hard, that confirms my theory that this game is crap and there are no more capable developers. first game in which I invested so much time, nerves and above all hatred. I even bought the €400 edition. I deeply regret it and will sell it again. For me, it is by far the worst game of all time. For me, the first part is and was the best and for me it stopped there and will remain that way. For me, there is no sequel. And I won't even watch the third part. It will probably be structured like Mario Party, with mini-games all the way through. Sad...
The party you get for the 3-member fight depends on how close they are to you throughout the game. Put Magnify + Barrier on one of the members you get in the Bahamut Arisen fight.
Yup, looks like it was a fluke though since they started dodging on all of the runs after I commented. Thanks for the guide, go through hard mode with your help on this fight!
The unskippable cutscenes are honestly the hardest part.
Brutal. Not sure whats worse though, dying 20 times or finally deciding to go back phases so you can change your equipment. Getting personal, I hate this MF.
same problem , i have to watch the cutscenes so many times
Isso precisa ser arrumado, pqp.
I genuinely hope whoever thought of still having boss cutscenes be unskippable doesn’t work on part 3. I’m not saying they have to be fired just keep them away from the dev team.
Agreed. It's almost as bad as if he were spamming Super Nova.
Phenomenal Video.
FYI, in the final battle with Aerith during The End is Nigh phase, I would stagger him then use Ascension and a couple Bravers but still kept getting wiped by an instakill Octoslash. Instead, I repeatedly used Spellblade the entire phase through all the chaos. Not only did it keep Aerith alive, but I easily killed him in one attempt without even staggering him. Highly recommend this strategy for those struggling like I was during that final 10% of his health.
That phase goes super quick with finishing touch +/- aga spell depending on sephiroths health at the start of the phase. Just conserve the atb bars and full limit when you reach the threshold health. I personally have enhanced expeditionary medal and limit siphon on cloud. It also makes the earlier fights go quick since all the party members start with a full limit just use cloud to siphon off them. Having gotterdamerung on Aerith you can do guaranteed at least 3 finishing touches in that fight with limit siphon
You're a good man. Honestly I needed the raid style breakdown, struggled for a couple of attempts, watched your explanation? EZ GG. Thanks! Have my sub
Thanks again for your hard mode boss guides. I went into this fight with what I thought was a bad materia setup. I had Healing-Magnify on Cloud instead of Aerith because I was getting wrecked in the very first phase where Cloud and Zack are fighting together. I had Healing-Auto Cast on Aerith and boy did it surprise me how useful that was! Since you're controlling Cloud most of the time, the auto healing spells coming in after taking some damage was so helpful. Your guide was especially helpful learning how to dodge all of Sephiroth's moves.
What I would do after pressuring him by interrupting his Whisper Cannon with Spell Blade is immediately use Focused Thrust with Cloud, then switch to Aerth and cast Fira inside of Arcane Ward (if she wasn't inside the ward I would ward shift her there first), then use Focused Thrust with Cloud a second time. If timed correctly, this is a guaranteed Stagger. Then when I had him staggered, I'd use Spell Blade twice and finish with Braver unless I had the synergy ability that would raise their limit level. Getting them to Level 3 limits before the final phase is crucial, and I suggest saving Aerith's limit for the end in case you get there and Cloud doesn't have his limit.
In the endgame phase I had Cloud at about 90% limit but Aertih's was full, so I used hers, then got Cloud up close to Sephiroth and used his. This brought Sephiroth to like 1% HP, and I had 2 ATB so I immediately cast a Firaga with Cloud to finish him off. I'm mildly upset Sephiroth robbed me of a level 3 limit break finishing move but I'll take the win. Glad to be done with hard mode, it was so challenging but so rewarding to have completed it.
I uploaded my gameplay of the final round for anyone wanting another look at it, credit was given to this channel for the main strategy
th-cam.com/video/8U8Es7ZeRfA/w-d-xo.html
The spell blade tip was very helpful, it made all the difference, was struggling to dps the wing and blade otherwise
Very informative and details, thank you for taking your time to make the guide and upload it. chapter 14 and struggle with jenova now XD, still those chains battle make me want to look for guide because it take so much time if the player failed :(
Manawall on Barret for Bahamut. My team is Tiffa Yuffie and Cait Sith… nice 😩
I really don’t like the random grouping across some of these final bosses, it takes away from the strategy element and on hard mode you really need to cater your build specifically for the boss.
Same here :( The moment I saw it I knew that I have to restart, as none of those characters had barrier on them. With this, I wonder what will be the lineup for phase with switching elements - I have no idea what I'll do without yuffie there
Have manawall magnify on both Barrett and Cait keeps you covered.
If one really wants to play it safe and not restart the hard mode gauntlet after difficult fights you can do the chapter in easy fly through it and see the order then restart it in hard. I think it’s based on character relationships so if you restart it should be exactly the same. It wouldn’t change unless you went through the story and changed those factors. I did chapter 14 hard 5 times last couple days and it was always the same order.
Thanks for the guide. I've been so stressed out over Brutal 6 in the battle simulator and took a break from grinding it to finish up the main story on Hard mode. This made the final sequence easier! Why couldn't Brutal 6 have checkpoints like this series of battles..? T_T
Thank you for the commentated guide. It certainly helped.
You aren’t forced to play as Barrett vs Bahamut Arisen. I got Yuffie and of course had no barrier ability since it was on Barrett instead.
Yes, same here. Tried everything but does not work without the barrier. So they force you to start all over again? Really? Thats complete crap, no? Especially if next time you randomly start with anothet character which maybe hasnt the barrier? That’s really a disappointing thing in this game.
If you suck at dodging (like me) Aerith’s Planet Protection level 2 limit is great for the final fight. Nothing funnier than getting hit by Skewer just to see the sword impale you with “immune” popping up. The protection doesn’t last very long though.
Bro thank you so much for the guide. It took me about 3 hours as I somehow forgot to put revive on Cloud for the final fight. I kept losing due to Heartless Angel and then his follow up attack killing Aerith. No way was I gonna go back through all those fights to change martia. Somehow got super lucky on the fight i did win, as I used Aerith's limit Break just as he cast it, which made her immune as she was in the animation. Then followed your advice for the octoslash move. She died during the final move, but Cloud has enough ATB to use Inifity's End once he staggered and that was it.
Oh and one thing, during the Bahamut fight, I had Cait Sith instead of Barret. Didn't matter too much as Tifa is my main so this stage of the fight was a breeze.
Just though I'd mention it in the future in case anyone wants to put magnify-barrier on Cait Sith as well as Barret, in case it happens to you too.
Thanks again bro.
Thank you for the guide. I didn't knowing spell blade would annihilate the extra body part/targets. That was the game changer I needed
U saved us a lot of frustration and cut scenes. A real bro. Many thanks
Wouldn't be anywhere without this guide, thanks a bunch!
Hi. Sephiroth's beam slashes are counterfire-able. Works in the Zack or Aerith duo fights.
Thanks buddy. The breakdown of the moves really helped. For the next installment, I hope we can get a combat sim function that lets us fight against a single boss just so we can study their moves.
Barret was my last man standing in the elemental wing phase. I had 1k Hp left Sephiroth went into his spinning hadouken mode. Had to pause and watch this part in your vid, then saw I had two ATBs and I can focus thrust 🤣
Nail-biter. Haha. Once again, thank you man!!! On to the last Chadley mission for the Plat! ❤
Found out yesterday, you don’t need to destroy elemental wings, you can destroy the core with tifa bravery amplified dive kicks. only takes 4
don’t even need to heal after heartless angel, you should have a limit break ready and then a level 3 magic. will clean it up. this is for max relationships
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Just finished chapter 14 your guide help me the entire way. Finally got the platinum trophy
Very well made guide. I’m gonna be honest, I forgot to put a heal on Cloud, so I kept dying to the second phase of Sephiroth Reborn. 😂
This was super useful for dealing with him during Bahamut. I usually keep barrier on Barret or Red, but I’d have likely kept dying to Gigaflares and trying to raise my way through it. My tifa build was broken though, so as long as I got Unfettered Fury off, I’d break the wings in one Divekick each.
Also really nice use of spell blade. I never really used those ones much because of the charge times, but they are very nice damage when you can find an opening.
Thanks for the tips! 🫡
Hard Mode done! Last two Legendary Bouts to go! 🎉
Grats. The Sephy one is pretty easy, but the Zack took me several attempts.
I also favor Spellblade/Powercleave since it does about as much as Braver, but w/ 0 ATB cost. It actually builds almost 1 full bar on Cloud + partner.
Thanks for this. I've beat that gruelling chapter. I'm shit at using spellblade. Only used it once and i used aerith magic after that
Thanks man- this literally got me through the 10 million phases. Got the hard mode trophy finally.
Now its just the chadley simulations and ghost ship.
I did it so easily thanks to this guide! Thanks a lot man!
*Heal yourself (there is time)*
Me dying before healing myself...
Ahh I had Yuffie in both parts so the elemental thing wasn’t so bad piece of cake - and won the rest of the bosses overall 🥳👍 2 vr missions left to goooo
I think those bahamut/seph wing fights are semi preformed, tifa/cait for the 1st and red/barret for the 2nd seem to be static and the 3rd member seems to be whichever one you took on a date or possibly next highest excluding the 2 that are already there. Maybe not the date, but it seems to have something to do with affection in some way. Either that or it's completely random and a coincidence who I got on multiple playthroughs.
@@FaelonZ Question for you. For the the "it's those stupid wings!" (color changing) phase, I have watched videos from 10+ different people, and Yuffie is in the party 100% of the time. Have you seen a video where Yuffie is NOT available for the color changing wings part? It's driving me nuts!
I did not have Barrett for the Bahamut arisen fight…and so no barrier…so they really force you to restart again? (As instanr dead always for me) So how furthermore you know in advance to equip whom with the barrier??? That’s really badly done. Frustrating
agreed, apparently he stops casting gigaflare during the cast if you hit him enough, completely baffled on my clear. And that was after going back to the zack/cloud fight so I could add barrier=magnify to someone. The group seems to be static to your save file, so you can prog it with some foresight once you've seen it. It's just kinda frustrating not being able to swap loadouts until after you know and having to do other fights again leading up to it. I thought for sure the gimmick is to stagger him before he gets the cast off, which gives you maybe like 20-30s depending on how much shit he does before gigaflare, but yeah no clue he just stopped casting it midway through me punching him and shit and then just started doing the dive attack again. I'm like whatever I just wanna be done with this roller coaster of a fight already lmao. Jenova was bad enough with sheer randomness of the attacks, just random lasers throughout the entire fight, I've still no idea how to dodge some of the red death laser attacks, the camera is awful in that fight lol.
Thanks so much for this video bro, I finally beat the game just now using your strategy.
You can also counter fire during the end is nigh. It does a huge amount of damage and makes your character immune to projectile damage. I didn’t know you could double thrust him. That was super cool. I kept getting hit by the upwards shooting beams but the main horizontal one which does huge damage, I counter fired it twice and it did enough to kill him. Super nice. I never thought about using spell blade, that was great haha. And strangely I only saw him using Octoslash after the end is nigh, never just randomly. It was a good boss fight. Not too random as you said and challenging without being cheap and unfun. What an end to an amazing game. Platinum trophy after 195 hours finally haha
Can you do a guide for Jenova Lifeclinger the boss rush before this one?
My character with Mag + manawall was absent from the buhamut fight.
Yuffie was absent from the element al weakness fight. Wth dude lol still finished it but damn im glad it's over
Zack’s “What in the hell is going on?!” Perfectly describes this fight
Is this easier than the vr challanges? Ive passed those but kinda dreading this since seph likes to use heartless angel and throw bahamut at a random team group. Is it possible to edit materia between phases and can you edit between jenova and sephiroth? Its basically just a boss gauntlet on final chapter
Imho, the final set of Sephiroth fights are much easier than the Legendary VR Bouts w/ Cloud + Zack.
And you cannot edit materia from the Jenova fight onwards.
Do you get a chance to re-equip your materia between Jenova Lifeclinger and this fight, or do we need to use this materia setup in both fights?
Same setup from Jenova onwards
@@TSouL22 Not true, you can hold square during the cutscene before the Zack & Cloud v. humanoid Sephiroth fight to access the equipment and materia menu. After that point, however, you have no chances that I'm aware of
Is there a way to know who will join in the battle. Seeing a lot of People saying they got other charakters then yours.
And do you have a video for the whispers before the final battle?
Looks like the join order depends on your affinity towards each of them.
@@kyeda 😂 I feel you. Somewhat got used to him in his Legendary Bout, but I agree his battle system isn’t the most intuitive and the tutorials for him are just as bad as Zack and Sephiroth.
If you don’t want to waste time going through the fights and starting over you can always breeze through it on easy and then restart in hard it’ll be the same one
Made it all the way to cloud, aerith vs sephiroth and hit the wrong restart. Had to start completely over. Now bahamut arisen is one hitting me with gigaflare
Died more on Jenova than all else combined, but it's done. The platinum is mine.
Definitely earned a sub here.. I’m not sure y but Rebirth is stomping me for most of the hard content. I have no doubt some of these guides will help me understand what I’m doing wrong / not grasping. I went through normal mode without a single go screen (the last DPS check by Seph almost got me) so the difficulty spike has been jarring “for me.” Ty for the time and effort! (Do you plan on doing guides for all chapter bosses?)
I made guides for most of the bosses that could be a wall for players. Probably not gonna do one for every boss.
Stomping other than the last fight nothing is difficult.
And if you fight 2 enemies that is rude and elena for example just use sleep on one of them easy and go by the enemy intel every time.
And as far as fighting enemies are concerned just run past them in most of the game I had to fight enemies like 3 times only other than bosses.
Thanks man !!
The final phase is honestly such bullshit. It took me 9 attempts and on four of these attempts, he used Heartless Angel and IMMEDIATELY used a move that would kill me before I could Curaga. I began just saving my stupid limit for the stupid attack so I could be immune and survive and Aerith could heal herself. Dunno how this fight is doable without Gotterdammerung, good fucking luck cause I needed every single limit for immunity.
Curaga takes more time to channel. Use Cura or Pray instead
3:56 I have Tifa Yuffie and Cait Sith. Does anyone know why ?
Everyone's party will differ. It depends on your relationship with your party members
FYI you're not guaranteed to get Barret during the Bahamut Arisen part. I got Youffie instead for that part.
Me too lmao it kinda threw me off - I was kinda counting on her ninjutsu for the next part but she showed up early. and now I probably won’t have her for the next phase.. took a break at start of Zack solo part bout to go back in and finish 🙏🤞🤞🤞
Yeah a couple of my 3 person fights had different party members.
Yeah, no Barret for me either :/ Gigaflare is a problem
you said you're forced to play as Tifa Barret and Cait Sith yet I always start my encounter with Tifa, Cait and Yuffie. I don't understand why.
Are there checkpoints through the fight?😅
Cause i did not died on my 1st playthrough i dont know.
There's a checkpoint every time your team changes, but no autosave.
@@TSouL22 okay ^^
Nice guide!
Super helpful video man
Boy oh boy someone should put up a fight against white whispers guide in chapter 14 cause they will take all you party mp before you can even fight sephiroth.
bro.........i got a little far in chapter 14 then looked at my mp.. i was like wtf? i know i didnt use a single spell... then started the chapter over and was like "ohhhhh these things steal your mp" 😂😂😭😭
@chalmerznorman1149 im so hard headed that this is where im stuck i really dont wanna repeat the Jenova fight but i think i might have to with 5mp
Quaga (Petrify) + Magnify on a mage build Cloud.
My AI refuses to dodge either the whisper cannons or whirlwinds like they do in your video... it's driving me nuts, I have no idea how to get them to do better lol, they always insta-die whenever he pulls one out
Do they all have Steadfast + Precision materias?
"I will Never. Be a Memory."
I got Tifa, Yuffie, and Cait for bahamut....lucky me
how to stop the final sephiroth's masamune? he keeps spamming it not giving me enough time to recover atb
I conserve my atb during the fight and wait for openings like whisper cannon whirlwind or octoslash to pressure him. If you don’t have the atb it’s tough. It’s super easy to do it this way. I do double fira for octoslash I have swiftcast plus fire and fire plus magic focus on cloud
So when you use Spell Blade over his Octaslash, does that mean you wait and it’ll strike on the fullest damage on its’s own? Or do you eventually have to let go to unleashed the most damage so that you don’t look like an idiot waiting too long but at a cost?
You can let go once you see Aerith toss some magic into Cloud's sword. Then start holding again for the next Spellblade.
@@TSouL22 Alright. Well hopefully it all works out. I managed to give him enough damage to not get to that moment. But it’s nice to learn how to avoid severe damage when it occurs. Thank you for all your help.
@@TSouL22 Alright I finished it. The Octaslash situation I handled it differently. But this guide helped either way. I was working with what I got as well as your suggestions, and wasn’t sure if I could managed with some of these phrases. If there’s one thing I learned more than ever is precision timing.
I do double firas for octoslash on masamune and wing. I think it’s easier to do this fight saving your atbs in anticipation for the whisper cannon or whirlwind or octoslash. I did chapter 14 hard 3 times last night
@@MK-fm3ln It’s fun to find new strategies.
Litterally can't lock on to this guy at the final faze, barret just starts shooting at nothing. 😢
Hold up...
It says on the bahamut arisen you're locked to tifa, Barrett and Cait sith, but my Barrett has been replaced by yuffie and lemme tell you.. it is A HINDRANCE
Who made the unskilable cut scene this make me angry i play ff7 or darlsould 😢
Good video. Don't know mann they gave me red instead of gun boy so I don't know what's going on. B safe n I don't have Barrier on red I guess I have to start over that sucks ;) am in hard mode to
question how do you do wind slash with cloud ? for me it’s random sometimes he does it sometimes he just charges the enemy ….
Dodge (circle) and push attack (square) and repeat after 3 wind slashes. If you keep mashing attack after the 3rd projectile, Cloud does a gap closer.
@@TSouL22thanks :)
No more MP for Cloud. Currently on Sephy Reborn first phase. No Gotterdamerung
Looks like I'm fucked 😅
Sephiroth killed me 3 times during the end is nigh haha... Then I remembered I had Phoenix equipped. Reraise for the win
this is going to take me an entire day😐, how do u guys do this so easily?
It took me about 5 hours to clear Jenova and Sephiroth. And 3 of those hours were the final phase of Sephiroth. Hard mode kicked my ass and I had to dig really deep as a gamer to clear some of these bosses. In a way I'm proud of myself for pulling it off but not gonna lie it was a lot of stress. Gi Nattak, Galian Beast and Rufus really frustrated me. A lot of times I got super close to winning and but was so low on HP I got one shotted. Just wanted you to know you're not alone in taking a long time to KO this boss, it's super tough. Hopefully you beat him already but if not good luck and you got this!
The sad moment u realise you don't have spell blade, but don't want to reset the fight D:
I have to reset the fight from the Cloud+Zack every time the a-hole one-shots me.
@@BlitzHavenDirEnGrey6 you shouldn't have to in hardmode
@@kitty1931 I'm not on hardmode, just trying to beat the game for the first time.
@@BlitzHavenDirEnGrey6 ah i see. Whenever his wing or sword is vunerable, blast it with a lightning attack to weaken him. Save your limit breaks and cast them as he is doing the heartless attack. This will make you invunerable.
so.... the people they choose for tifa barret red caitsith is random... i didnt get them i got yuffie tifa cait.
The unskippable cutscenes after dying and having to restart the whole fight from the beginning is VERY annoying. Why can't I just restart that fight part? No I have to replay the Cloud and Zack fight again, and again, again, and again, and again.
You can restart from the segment you died in without going all the way back to the Cloud and Zack one.
If you pick the top option when restarting it takes you to the cutscene where the group kill bizarro Sephiroth and Aerith appears for the duo fight.
Stupidly you can't skip the cutscene, but you shouldn't have to redo it from the Zack bit at all.
what about the boss fight before the cloud solo phase?
Right? Most of the guides are just the last phase and this one is all but the first? I'm getting freaking cooked in the Cloud & Zack first phase.
@@jornado8774 Swift Cast + Aero, Magic Focus + Aero, MP Absorption + Aero, TP Absorption + Aero, Life, Precision Block, Steedfast Block, TP Boost, Magic Boost, ATB Boost. Control Zack and give Cloud Haste and Faith. Just spam Aeroga.
Completely bs phases. If the setup is in either phase bad, you have to restart from the very first checkpoint.
You can change your setup right before Rufus, after beating Rude/Elena.
Bro i really strugle the firsts phases, my team composition was diferent and i get caitsit twice when he was the one with less materia equiped x_X ... glad that after zack everything was fine >0< Zack phase is almost free, next i get yuffie barret and red, 2 tanks for yuffie... and for the final phase i had both over equiped xDD I had cloud with the amulet to max his limit, and idk how but i used it almost at the end to prevent his death, during the animation cast meteor with tifa, and when sephi enter in his damage check last phase i had the 3º limit again with cloud ... not sure why but thanks god :))
Thanks fo the tips!
Apocalyptic Fate? or Fire >.>
Bah im not getting barret in these fights
Fuck this fight, it’s super cheap, I didn’t have issues to the last part of the last form, it took me a good 3 hours and not in a fun souls/Sekiro type way but a bullshit why did I keep getting 1 shot. I had to turn my power bar into 3 forms and then just hit I’m with soul drain 3 times healing wind to heal both of us and finally braver and firaga to finish them off. Fuck that shit.
Bro why do I have yuffie and not barret
It depends on your relationship with your party members. People will get either or.
@@amarcellus1714 I got both for the second fight.
My damn sephiroth is not getting pressured by ultimate or syng attack when he uses his octoslash .. wtf am I supposed to do with him
Use spellblade on wing and sword
🤦🏽♂️took all the materia off Aerith since you know she died then now I’m locked in this battle with her 😑 also didn’t put access on every party memeber chapter select on easy to access everyone will be the move after this
Aerith shows up wearing a bikini: "Let's end this".....😅
I guess we're not gonna just use Firaga on the first phase and immediately end it but okay
I've just started hard mode and by heck it's hard
Yeah the last part of Sephiroth isnt that bad. Its mainly just remember to have ATB to heal. The End is Nigh phase had me shook so I just saved my limit breaks and ATB so that I could triple slash 2x and then Finishing Strike LB to guarantee victory.
Its almost the same in yhe simulator from what I can see. Gilgamesh looks qay tougher
I swear to Goodness I will never play this game on hard mode again
I'm sorry but 1 those 3 are not who you get for bahamut, and 2 having to know ahead of time to bring barrier on the random 3 people you don't know you're gonna control ahead of time is just bad game design. The boss looks like he can be pressured before doing the gigaflare, but you only have like 20 seconds to do so. I can get him to about 4/5 on the pressure gauge at most out of yuffie, tifa, and cait sith which is the 3 I had for this. I would've loved to have barret because he can actually push the pressure gauge very well. But if you're telling me the mechanic is simply "use manaward on everyone and tank the attack" 3 bosses into the gauntlet with random people in the group then yeah that's just a poorly designed fight. I wanna enjoy these games but man they are dropping the ball hard on some of these fights with the randomness to the fights. Jenova had a barrage of completely random attacks with just laser light show dodge fest I never knew when something was gonna shoot me. Some attacks I can dodge but others seemed completely random. And you don't know who's gonna be in your team. It's just poorly done, but man this "use manaward" is just ass I'm sorry but it is.
Edit: After having finished this fight (initially came looking for help to beat the bahamut portion), apparently bahamut just decides to stop casting gigaflare if he's hit enough during the cast, actually no clue at all why that happens. Surely the gimmick is to build enough pressure to stagger him within the 20-30s time limit before he casts gigaflare, or rather before it goes off. In my clear however he just kinda stops casting it mid-cast I was completely dumbfounded, this was after I went back to the zack/cloud fight so I could reset loadout to put barrier=magnify on someone, and didn't even need it apparently lol. Who knows, some shit they do in this game just baffle me, makes absolutely no sense, love it and enjoyed my time but good god are there a lot of glaring issues lol
Finally beat him!!! It wasn't worth it, if i knew the ending was so disappointing, so nothing, i would have watched it on TH-cam.
This is BS... He kills me after doing Heartless Angel. This boss fight is extremely difficult even.
Need an effective strategy against HA attack
Complete your pokedex lmaooo
Dang. Beat him before I watched this. Would of made it much easier
The final bosses are way too long and way too hard 😢 i may have to give up
Honestly, the most unenjoyable rubbish ever, dynamic was fun, this is just needless stress
Your voice reminds me of the guys that beat up the chosen one with sticks in Kung pow fist of fury.
😂
bahamuts one shot is bs
Not a one shot
This shit is excessive 😂
I kept getting to Bahamut but I keep getting Red and Cat. Why did they destroy this FF part so brutally? As far as I'm concerned, they can add a hundred characters that you can control yourself, but what's with this crap with the trust %? Just leave it out, I can't finish the game because of it. Above all, Cat doesn't even have a trust %, so why does he appear, wtf? Was the creator high? I'm finishing it from Bahamut. Since this game is a terrible failure, I'm leaving it at that. I'm definitely not going to spend my whole life trying to get Barret.
I don't have enough material to fill 7 characters and I don't want to take a chance on the hope of getting the right one.
As far as I'm concerned, you can do it all like that and I would overlook it if you could change your set up before the fight. But since you're playing on luck here and don't even get a gold trophy for it if you play on hard, that confirms my theory that this game is crap and there are no more capable developers.
first game in which I invested so much time, nerves and above all hatred. I even bought the €400 edition. I deeply regret it and will sell it again. For me, it is by far the worst game of all time.
For me, the first part is and was the best and for me it stopped there and will remain that way. For me, there is no sequel. And I won't even watch the third part. It will probably be structured like Mario Party, with mini-games all the way through. Sad...
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