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Final Fantasy VII (1997)

Duration: 1:57

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World map encounters are a very strange matter.
In a way they are more random than field map encounters, in another way they are even less random.

Basically, which field map encounters one gets depends on one's battle count since the last hard reset. Which world map encounters one gets seems to depend on one's movement on the world map (I actually don't really know much about world map encounters though).

As I needed to fight three Flapbeats to steal one T/S Bomb, fill Cloud's Limit gauge and win another T/S Bomb, I obviously wanted to get a Flapbeat encounter all the time, and I did.

If you watch closely, you can see that while running towards the Tiny Bronco, Cloud moves slightly to the right and to the left for a total of six times. Doing this allowed me to always get that Flapbeat encounter, even though I did not get it on the very same spot all the time.

Still, getting that encounter was not even half the thing...

Not only did I need to successfully steal a T/S Bomb in one try (40% chance) but also had the Flapbeats to attack Cloud often enough to fill his Limit bar (bad odds), and finally, they had to drop at least one T/S Bomb (1/3 chance).

I am thankful this segment is so short and I still had a Right Arm...

The rest is just getting the arguably most powerful materia in this run and skipping a random encounter (I can do this because I only run left in Gongaga until the skip).

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