Originally Posted by soggy

dude. play it through. steal a lot. you can pick up awesome weapons early game. don't go buying everything for your team at the next town. just take what is necessary and move on. you can come back later if you want. sell weapons that you don't need, same with armor. keep accessories. never use elixirs, use those for the magic pot in sephiroths cave. steal right arms from bombs at mt corel to kill off lost number later on. hardedge from soldier 3rd, carbon bangle from the robot things on the same level at 68th floor in shinra building. you can run across the marsh instead of getting chocobo lure, the midgar zolom is shit. get beta if you want, just save before. buy all defenders and 2 attackers 2 shooters at mt condor, but the attackers behind the defenders and defenders to attack the first wave, then shootesr and attackers to take down the rest. get magic comb, from that, pinwheel from the same forest where you get yuffie, stealing of course from the flying things. when fighting bosses just use offensive items, always helps early game, e.g. reno at the pillar has 1000 hp, use 10 grenades, don't attack, and all you'll have to do is use a potion, once. disc 2 and 3 you're on your own, because I'm too lazy to type out EVERYTHING, but there are some tidbits, you might find them useless or full, its up to you. um, get a weapon for vincent in kalm, its awesome, double materia growth, keep it don't sell it. red XIII use a lot, he's wicked vs boss at junon harbor. kill gi nattak with an x-potion you get from defeating reno and rude at gonganga forest. steal awesome items from the rhinotanks at the gonganga reactor. materia keeper at mt nibel don't use vincent at all his ulti will just cure it, get trine, most powerful spell. boss is lightening based so use lightening elemental for your armor to reduce dmg. just rinse through him using limits and the like. don't attack palmer with magic because his is the same power, just make sure you've got about 1500 hp when you get to cosmo canyon, 1700 hp at nibelheim, 2000 hp at rocket town and around 2600 hp at temple of ancients. get rune blade at mt nibel as well as so many awesome items don't take tube number 1 down first because its a dead end and you can't get back up top (mt nibel), take the ladders down first and then turbes to get items. costa del sol motor drive etc in the house that you can buy laterfor no apparent reason except to look like a toff. what else... dodge right instead of left to avoid elena's punch in the snow town before snow boarding down to the mountain so she rolls down and you don't get knocked out, save up to buy the weapons at this town (1st town you get to in disc 2) because they cost like 15k+ as well as kick ass armor and you won't get to another shop for a very, very long time. enhance sword on the mountain, as well as hp absorb, which you can pick up in wutai as well in disc one. get hte levi scales and go back to the mountain in wutai thats on fire and use it there to get items for yufiies and steal as well materia. don't knock over barrels to save aeris in church, just let her fight the bitch needs exp. no 5 reactor fight a lot because you won't use barret for a while and he will be lower when you raid shinra building later. ok. I'm tired. you ask more questions I@ll answer them just message me :p