Final Fantasy VII Challanges

• WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS ***

Final Fantasy VII challanges are not for the faint of heart, or the casual FF7 player. But they can be one of the most rewarding games you can play if you are up for the challange.

Let's start with the basics. These are the most common types of challanges:

LL: Low Level. No characters are allowed to exceed 30. You will need to run from normal encounters and only level up when absolutly nessisary to beat a boss.

NM: No Materia. No Materia is allowed at all through the course of the game. You must trash any materia you receve in the game, it cannot be sold for gil. Any char who has materia when they join your party cannot use it in a battle and it must be de-equipped and trashed as soon as possible.
(Yes that means you can't use the chocobo lure to get past the Midgar Zolom. But if you don't want to level up endlessly to beat it there is an easier way, Just run halfway through the swamp and enter the menu before the Zolom reaches you then save and restart, You will be able to run the rest of the way without the Zolom catching you)

NI: No Items. No items can be used in battle.Exceptions are Key Items, batteries, and the save crystal.

IE: Initial Equip. You may only use the weapon and armor the character had when they first entered your party (I.e. Buster Sword and Bronze Bangle for cloud) Weapons and armor you aquire during the course of the game may be sold.

NA: No Accessories. Accessories can never be equiped. They may be sold for gil.

SC: Single Character. You can only use one char in battle throughout the game. The other two chars must be killed asap and you cannot attack any monsters until you have only one char alive.

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Uncommon challanges: these are usually used in conjunction with the more common challanges.

NNMI: No Non_Mandatory Inns. You are not allowed to use Inns or tents.

NE: No Escaping. You are not allowed to escape during battle.

LE: Lowest exp. You must have the lowest exp possible after beating Jenova-SYNTHESIS.

MO: Materia Only. You may only use Materia. You can't attack or use items.

IO: Items Only. You may only use items. Starts as soon as you can buy Grenaids.

CMO: Command Materia Only. You can only use Command Materia. This may not interfere with other rules, for example if you are doing a NI as well you may not usw W-Item.

MMO: Magic Materia Only. Same as above except with Magic Materia.

NES: No Enemy Skills.

L1L: Level one limits. You can only use Level one Limits.

NLB: No Limit Breaks

NPA: No Physical Attacks. You may not use the attack command in battle.

NS: No Shops. You are only allowed to use items you find or win in the game. (this ecnompasses everything from trivial items like Spider Web to some of the most powerful weapons and materia in the game, like Ultima Weapon and Knights of the Round)

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So sounds like SCIE is Cloud with Buster Sword only?

<sup>Could you have 3 live characters and have 1 get kicked out while Cloud fights/heals and the other defends?
If so, go to the Midgar Zolom.
Let one person get tailed out of the battle and keep everyone else at max health.
The Midgar Zolom should use Beta which is like an All-Fire-5.
Kill it then you have the skill.

Having a person out of the battle will save you from a game over.
And having the other in the battle, along with your SC, will help take some attacks off of you.</sup>

I've got an SCIENMNE save somewhere, but I got no idea where exactly I've arrived in the game. I assure you it wasn't easy though.

The Midgar Zolom can be beaten at a very low level:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h31_Wk9A2Io

challanges sounds fun ill have to try one

I have done NI, IE, NA, SC, NNMI, NES, NE (easily). NM seems realyl hard I might try it but then again that doesnt make it much fun, I like to enjoy my game as well as the challenge so if the challenge is really boring for me I don't really like to even attempt it, also LL seems really difficult.