WALKTHROUGH DISC III

NORTHERN CRATER

On this disc all you have to do is get to the bottom of the crater and defeat Sephiroth, however there is much more to do than that. Here I will just explain how to get to the bottom of the crater. When the highwind descends into the crater climb down the ladder and run toward the screen and choose “all right lets go”. If you want to leave the cave to the right is the only way to do so. In the chest it to the left of the door are some save crystals, save these for later. Now jump the gap and follow the ledge around, the next chest you reach has a guard source in it. When you have this continue around the path. When you get to the next screen go left and jump down the ledge, climb up the blue area on the far left and collect a power source from the chest, then walk right (on the same ledge) and collect the HP absorb Materia. Now jump off this ledge and walk right, you will walk down a slope and onto another ledge. There is a box containing an elixir. When you have it walk right to the next blue section jump down and then go left to the next blue bit and jump down again. Keep jumping down the blue areas until you reach the ledge with a chest on the right hand side and a blue area on the left. There is a magic source in the chest, collect it and carry on down the blue bits. When you reach the bottom climb up the blue area to the right and collect a mind source from the chest. Now jump back down and of the bottom of the screen into the next area. Enter the cave on the left and walk down the hill, there is a cave on the right go in it and walk up to collect the power source in the box. Go back through the cave and carry on down the hill. There is another chest near the bottom containing a guard source. When you have it go through the cave just below it, out side there is a box to the right that contains a hero drink. Now go back up through the cave. When you get out at the top run right and drop down the hole, you will land next to a box containing a mind source, now jump of the ledge to the right and go into the cave. Walk around the path and out the other cave, jump off the ledge to the left, then to the right twice and then to the left twice, finally to the right again. Climb down the rocks and talk to your team members. Take the three allies that you want in your team right and everyone else left. Now head right and make your way around the spiral ramp. When you reach the bottom there is a mystile in the box to the left and to the right there is an elixir. After collecting them carry on going down. At the very bottom there is speed source in a box in front of you and a tetra element to the right at the bottom of the screen, collect them and up and all the way around the broken egg in front of you, there is a box containing a megalixir and another megalixir in a box at the top of the screen. There is an exit just above this box, go through it and walk down the spine of the large skeleton. You will now be on a ledge going all the way around a circular chamber. In the box is a luck source. If you walk around it you will once again find everyone else. Speak to every one and they will give you items to take with you (the items they give you will be random). This is the last point at which you can go back so it is as good as any to use the save crystals. Use them just before your screen zooms in on your party. When you go down you will have to jump from rock to rock, each time you land you will be attacked. When you have gone across all the rocks you will meet boss the penultimate(ish) boss. Jenova Synthesis. This is and easy battle as jenova takes so long to attack, use spells that attack all and she will be dead sooner than you realise. When you have defeated Jenova you will have to battle Sephiroth, there are three versions of him to fight although it is impossible to loose against the final one as you have 100% counter attack and omnislash. For the first version of him use everything you have making sure you have elixirs at hand, If you have KoR Materia or omnislash the fight is over in about two attacks. The second boss is slightly harder but still easy if you have KoR Materia or omnislash. When he is defeated that is all just sit back and watch the fire works. I recommend watching through the credits as the final FMV continues after them. There is a lot of the crater still unexplored and items left to collect so instead of defeating the bosses you could head back up the crater and do all the third disk extras.

To return to the top of the cave go through the cave and into the next area, jump across the gap and head up to collect the turbo ether from the box, walk left and jump off the ledge and onto the area at the back to open the chest. If  you came down the other way some of the boxes may be empty because the items your team mates give you are the items from this section. Now return to the main area and go up there is another box containing a X-potion a bit higher when you have it move to the back left area of the level it is on and jump up and then up to the next screen. Jump to the left and walk around the path and under the central section there is a box just after the central section collect the item and walk around a bit further. Next to the central section there is a box containing a turbo ether take it  and climb up the central section  and head up. On the third platform in the next screen there is a box containing a x-potion and on the next one there is a remedy. Now go to the right and collect the box from the higher platform and then climb the rocks on the remedy platform. On the next screen go in the first of the two caves. On the next screen go right and collect the magic source from the box at the end of the path. Now return to the entrance and take the other path. Follow the path and there is a box to the left. Then take the path leads up. Run all the way to the back left corner and collect the vaccine from the chest, now go up the path  and on to the large rock with the blue patch, if you go done where the blue patch is you will pop up near the chest on the left, it contains an imperial guard. Walk off this platform the opposite side you came on and you will be at the back on the right, near the front of the screen you will see a chest it contains a hero drink. Now leave via the back right hand corner. Head down towards the green glow in the centre and in the centre of the glow is counter Materia, collect it and then go to the top of the screen under the leaves in the centre there is a w-magic Materia. now go out through the cave on the left of the screen and you will now be back at where you met the party the second time.