Final Fantasy VII Speedrun - Segment 44
7This was some hardcore fun.
First of all, setting ATB to Wait makes things much more feasible.
I could have done that in the previous segment but I did not lose that much time by adjusting the ATB just in this segment.
Basically, there are 6 mandatory battles that must be kept as short as possible. I was trying out different strategies and, to my great horror, I realized that I would have to make use of Cait Sith's Dice to save quite some time.
Unfortunately, as I had used one T/S Bomb in the Icicle battles, I was left with only two more. Although two are enough to get through the Train Gauntlet, two aren't quite enough to get through it quickly. Therefore, I had to find a means of inflicting around 2,000 HP of damage to Wolfmeister without wasting a lot of time.
As it turns out, Cait Sith is capable of doing precisely that, using his Dice Limit Break and getting a double 5 or a double 6 toss.
While the odds of 1/18 of that event might not seem too bad, this segment was overall a serious hardcore pain.
Obviously, not only does Cait Sith need to get the right outcome in his Limit Break but also do a lot of other things need to work out right.
To begin with, catching up with the other train as quickly as possible is almost as bad as getting a very good time on the Snowboarding minigame. In fact, I had to spend 2 hours just practicing the catching up part. On the other hand, practice really payed off there.
Additionally, in order to finish this section as fast as possible, one needs to be pretty lucky with one's characters' and the enemies' ATBs.
The Gas Ducters' Smog Alert and Eagle Gun's general behavior were the main source of resets next to those due to Cait Sith's generic incompetence.
What's more, Eagle Gun might even kill a character rather easily.
Finally, this segment could have been nice had it not been for my failure to stop the train without losing around 2 seconds because I forgot what buttons I had to press at the end...
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