Game:

Final Fantasy VII (1997)

Duration: 9:05

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This is a very luck reliant, but not very hard segment. First of all, we need to learn Death Sentence, and that's something we gotta do "on the run" to lose as little time as possible. It is learned from Sneaky Steps, so the first luck reliant part is to actually get a Sneaky Step battle. Thankfully, I have access to BrutalAl and he made a strategy that allowed me to always get a 3x Sneaky Step battle in the second area.

A battle must be finished in order to learn a limit break, so you just have to throw that Right Arm immediately and hope one of the three Sneaky Steps uses it on Tifa. You also only want one of them to use Death Sentence, as it has a longer animation than the regular attack. Ideally, only one Sneaky Step should attack, but that's just not going to happen here.

However, it's far from over if you learn it. Sneaky Steps also drop M-Tentacles, and they deal a shitload of damage, so it would be nice to have one for each Stinger battle. However, the chance of getting one is already low, so you can just imagine how likely it is to get two. With only one, you have to use Molotovs in the second Stinger battle, and that equals a time loss of 17 seconds compared to the M-Tentacle strategy.

Then there's Gi Nattak. The strategy used here shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, but there's still plenty of time to save or lose in this battle. With ATB at Active, you are guaranteed that everyone gets a turn before you can throw the Elixir, and that's a 30 second time loss. Totally unacceptable. With Wait, you may be lucky and get the first turn if anyone's ATB bar is full enough when the battle starts. With only one M-Tentacle, you really can't accept him getting an attack here, but if you were lucky enough and got two, you can accept one. That's 8 seconds faster than one M-Tentacle and no attacks.

Needless to say, a perfect segment here is almost impossible to achieve, but if you really want to torture yourself for a 15 second time gain, you can skip the Elixir at the inn and use a Phoenix Down instead. They have a 75% chance of missing.

So, since I was lucky enough to get two M-Tentacles, I was at the brink of a nervous breakdown for the rest of the segment and didn't play perfectly. After all, I am only human.

However, there's a problem. I should have learned Cross-Slash after the second Stinger battle, but I must have used it once less than I should have in the Jenova-BIRTH battle, so that didn't happen. That means me and BrutalAl have to do some planning again. That shouldn't take too long, though.

Save time: 3:29:04

I'm now over 20 minutes ahead of my previous record time, and I haven't even gotten to the most time saving parts yet. That run was finished in 8:57:59.

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