Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade · walkthrough

INTERmission Chapter 1: Wutai's Finest

Story mode. Written for a first playthrough and kept free of spoilers — it will not tell you what happens here, only what the game is asking of you.

INTERmission is a separate two-chapter episode with its own save, started from the title menu. You play Yuffie, a ninja from Wutai with a mission in Midgar. Her partner Sonon fights beside her as an ally you give orders to; you never take direct control of him.

Yuffie plays differently from anyone in the main game. Her shuriken can be thrown at things a long way off — switches, balloons, crates on ledges — and most of the puzzles in this chapter are “find the switch, throw at it”. Elemental Ninjutsu gives the throw an element, so one fire, ice, wind or lightning materia goes a long way. The two of them can also team up on Synergy attacks.

Follow the moogles

The opening is a straight run through the outskirts of the slums, and the route markers are moogle posters. Follow them, but look around the warehouse and the scaffolding as you go. There are five chests before you reach the first proper street.

One of them matters more than the rest. Before the gate with the moogle on it, walk round the pit and climb the ladder on the far tower: that chest is Wind Materia, and you want it for an optional fight later in this chapter.

In Scrap Boulevard, check the small cave on the left beside the locked gate.

The hideout

Your contact leads you to a clinic. Check the bottom of the basement stairs before you talk to anyone — there is a new weapon for Yuffie there.

The game then asks you to talk to the people in the hideout. Do it properly; each one opens something. One teaches you Fort Condor, a board game you will play against people all over town. One points you at Chadley. One points you at a dancing man with a sign who wants you to find six flyers.

The afternoon is yours

When the game tells you to scout out Sector 7, it means it. This is the free roam, and almost everything optional in the episode lives in it.

Fort Condor is the big one. Seven players stand around the slums, each marked on your map, and they unlock in ranks as you win. Units beat each other in a triangle: red beats green, green beats blue, blue beats red. There is an Easy setting, the rewards are the same on it, and the last opponent is hard enough on Normal that nobody will think less of you. The last win pays a materia that is worth having.

The flyers are a gentle tour of the town. The list of clues is vague on purpose; the places worth checking are a children’s play area, a balloon, a balcony with a sleeping dog, a cat that will not give something back, a notice board near the station and the back room of the old factory. That last room has two enemies that poison, sleep and slow you, so go in healthy and bring a cure.

Chadley has a simulator fight. Bring the Wind Materia, leave lightning behind, and when the enemy starts tethering little sparks to the ground, kill the sparks — that is the whole fight. Win and the summon is yours for the rest of the episode.

While you walk around, open everything. There are chests on an apartment roof, behind oil drums in the cats’ corner, under a ladder in the northwest, and three in the abandoned factory off Pillar Plaza. The Junk Shop in the tunnel behind Seventh Heaven changes its stock as the day goes on; check it every time you pass.

Before you go to the pillar

When the game sends you to the pillar, the free roam is over. You leave the slums for the rest of the chapter, and nothing in town — the board game, the flyers, Chadley — is worth counting on after that. Finish them first.

Shop properly before you go, too. The stretch after this is long and the benches are spread out.

Out of town

The chase through the station and the industrial areas beyond is a linear run, but it keeps putting chests just off the path: at the bottom of side stairs, down ladders, at the top of climbing poles. A purple chest past the station fence is Sonon’s new staff, and another at the top of a yellow pole in the storage depot is Yuffie’s third weapon. Get that one. It matters again in Chapter 2.

The storage depot has a puzzle with movable climbing walls. You can put them back how they were, so explore every platform without worrying.

Pick up the Lightning Materia lying at the end of the last walkway, next to the bench. Then equip it. The big thing waiting at the end of the chapter shrugs off almost everything else, and lightning on its tail is how you win.

Game Notes

The base game keeps you in the slums for a day and makes you earn a place there. INTERmission gives you the same streets with a stranger’s eyes. Yuffie does not know anybody, and the town treats her like the tourist she is. It is the same place played as a heist instead of a homecoming, and it is a lot of fun to see it that way.

Fort Condor is the surprise. It looks like a throwaway minigame and turns out to be a proper little strategy game with its own economy, shops and rivals. If you enjoy it, the full set of boards is worth chasing; if you do not, Easy mode exists, and it is no shame to use it.

Yuffie herself is the best reason to be here. She is fast, she fights at any range, and the shuriken turns every room into a toy box. After eighteen chapters of Cloud’s sword, she feels like cheating, in a good way.

Worth doing on a first run

Wind Materia (scaffold tower)materiaBefore the moogle gate, walk clockwise round the pit and climb the ladder on the other tower. Wind is what the optional summon fight in Chadley's simulator is weak to, so do not walk past it.
BoomerangweaponBottom of the basement stairs in the clinic that fronts Avalanche's base, on the left. Yuffie's second weapon. A Potion comes with it.
Discovery: Mastering Fort CondorsidequestThe board game. Vanguard beats Ranged, Ranged beats Defense, Defense beats Vanguard. Destroy the enemy headquarters, or hold more of their outposts when time runs out. Opponents unlock by rank and each is marked on the map. There is an Easy setting and the rewards are the same on it. Beating the Grandmaster earns Game, Set, Master.
Fort Condor: Chadley (Grandmaster)materiaThe last and hardest board. Pays AP Up Materia, 10,000 gil and four Condor Coins, and earns Game, Set, Master. Spend coins on the Grandmaster Board first.
Discovery: The Happy Turtle Ad CampaignsidequestFind Old Snapper's six flyers and take them back to him for Magnify Materia. All six earns Turtle-tastic. Each flyer becomes a numbered Happy Turtle Newsletter key item.
Chadley's simulator: Ramuh MateriamateriaChadley stands near the Neighborhood Watch headquarters. A two-person fight against Ramuh in VR. Weak to wind; do not bring lightning. Below about half health he summons three tethered sparks — destroy them before Judgment Bolt lands, which ends the fight. A Limit Break interrupts it. Many of his hits stun.
Chthonian ArmletarmourFor beating the three Corneo Lackeys at the Municipal Storage yard, the first fight with Sonon. Four slots, two linked. Fire works on them.
Indurate StaffweaponPurple chest in the open yard past the station fence gate. Sonon's second staff. A Potion comes with it.
Steel ReaperweaponPurple chest at the top of the yellow pole after the Horned Cripshay, before the climbing wall. Yuffie's third weapon; its Banishment ability is the key to the box-smashing challenge in Chapter 2. A Potion comes with it.
Elemental MateriamateriaOn the middle platform of the climbing-wall puzzle. Reset the walls to reach it. The walls move back and forth, so nothing here locks you out.
Lightning Materia (main pillar maintenance)materiaOn the floor at the end of the walkway, by the last bench and vending machine. Equip it before the next door: the boss wants it.

How this page was made

Researched across 4 community walkthroughs and written from scratch — no source’s wording appears here.

How we decide what to print

Completionist mode. Full spoilers, in play order, with every permanent loss called out before you reach it. 4 entries below are marked where our sources disagree with each other — we have not picked a winner for you.

Spoilers from here.

INTERmission has its own save, its own Chapter Select and its own Hard mode, all unlocked by beating its final boss. Nothing in this chapter is lost forever. What closes, closes for this run, and a Chapter Select replay brings it back — with one catch: unique chests pay a Potion or a Healing Materia the second time, so a replay is for the side content, not the chest loot.

The deadline

Heading to the pillar (“Change of Plans”) ends the free roam. Zhijie is questioned, runs, and the chase takes you through the station, the shipping facility, the storage depot and the waste plant to main pillar maintenance. You pass back through the raided slums only to board the train, and boarding the train closes everything in town: Fort Condor, the flyers, Chadley’s Ramuh fight, the Junk Shop, Old Snapper’s coin shop and every chest in the slums and the Talagger factory. You can still shop on the way back, but treat the pillar as the deadline for everything else.

Everything, in order

Slums outskirts. Follow the moogle posters. The warehouse has Hi-Potion x2 on the ground floor after the first elevator and HP Up Materia on a ledge you reach by sending the second elevator up. Power Wristguards sit past the moogle-poster door by the yellow bins. Before the moogle gate, go clockwise round the pit and up the other tower for Wind Materia — Ramuh’s weakness. 1,000 gil waits at the dead end of the tunnel past the gate. Two Wayward Wolves stand between you and the robed man.

Scrap Boulevard. MP Up Materia in the little cave on the left by the locked gate.

The hideout. The Boomerang is at the bottom of the clinic’s basement stairs, on the left, with a Potion. Talk to Nayo, Billy Bob and Polk for the intel round. Polk gives you the Fort Condor starter pack and plays the tutorial. Nayo sends you to Old Snapper, south of the base, for the List of Flyer Clues. Billy Bob sends you to Chadley.

Scouting Sector 7 — the free roam. In the residential area: Riot Trooper Barracks (Defense) beside Wedge’s house in the southeast; Warding Materia at the back of the northwest scrap area, under a metal ladder where a woman tells children the story of Stamp; Chakra Materia on the roof of the apartment block west of the item shop, up the ladder behind the guard dog; Hi-Potion x2 behind the oil drums in the cats’ corner. In the Talagger factory off Pillar Plaza: Monodrive (Ranged) in a yellow pod under wooden crates in the north room; the second Chakra Materia in breakable boxes in the southwest corner, by the bench and vending machine; First Strike Materia in the far east room after two Venomantis.

The handoff. Sonon’s first fight is three Corneo Lackeys at Municipal Storage — weak to fire, and worth a Chthonian Armlet (four slots, two linked, and it grows with the Gozu and Mezu Drives you take later). The forger gives you the Interplate ID Card. Heading back to base, break the wall at the end of the new exit for Kindred Cord.

Station and shipping facility. The Indurate Staff (with a Potion) is in the purple chest in the yard past the station fence. In the shipping facility, Sweeper (Ranged) is at the bottom of the side stairs past the Cripshays. After the “Conveyor Belt Bedlam” switch — throw through the gap in the fence, between containers — climb down for Prayer Materia behind two Lesser Drakes.

Storage depot. Yuffie falls; Zhijie is taken. The Horned Cripshay (ice) pays the Gozu Drive. The Steel Reaper (with a Potion) is at the top of the yellow pole just after it. The Elixir is behind the switch where Zhijie stood when Yuffie fell. In the climbing-wall puzzle: Assassin Board III at the top of the left stairs after three Toxirats; Turbo Ether on the north platform with three Gorgers; Elemental Materia on the middle platform once you reset the walls. A Wrath Hound and two Wayward Wolves are in the way.

Waste disposal plant. The Levrikon (fire, ice) pays the Mezu Drive. A Shinra box before the long conveyor holds a note from Zhijie about breaking crates; the conveyor is lined with them. At the end of the pipes and crates, jump off left for Magic Up Materia.

Main pillar maintenance. Lightning Materia on the floor at the end of the walkway, by the last bench and vending machine. Then the Gigantipede. Zhijie hands over the Shinra Employee ID Card afterwards, you go back through the ransacked hideout, and the train ends the chapter.

Fort Condor

Polk teaches it in the hideout. Vanguard (red) beats Ranged (green), Ranged beats Defense (blue), Defense beats Vanguard. Destroy the enemy HQ, or have taken more outposts when time runs out. Opponents unlock rank by rank and are marked on the map; any order works within a rank.

Opponent	Rank	Where	Reward	Hard reward
Polk	tutorial	the hideout	Sentry Gun Prototype (Defense), Condor Coin	—
Kyrie	1	northwest, near Stargazer Heights	Elite Security Officer (Vanguard), coins	Ninja + Staff Vol. I
Shinra Middle Manager	1	table east of Seventh Heaven	Elite Grenadier (Ranged), coins	Vol. II
Johnny	1	alley northeast of the hideout	Elite Riot Trooper (Defense), coins	Vol. III
Jessie	2	Seventh Heaven patio	Grenadier Barracks (Ranged), coins	Vol. IV
Roche	2	Pillar Plaza, by the factory	Elite Helitrooper (Vanguard), coins	Vol. V
Wedge	3	outside his house	Armored Shock Trooper (Defense), coin	Vol. VI
Chadley	Grandmaster	near the Watch HQ	AP Up Materia, 10,000 gil, 4 coins	Vol. VII + 30,000 gil

Rank-up rewards come on top. The first gives Sorcerer Board I and Helitrooper (Vanguard) — which is why guides disagree about what Polk pays: he pays both, in two steps. Clearing rank 1 gives Battalion Board I, Assassin Board I and Sorcerer Board II; clearing rank 2 gives Battalion Board II and Assassin Board II; beating Wedge gives Battalion Board III. Most guides only list one board per rank-up.

Old Snapper’s Condor Coin shop: Shock Trooper 1, Sentry Ray 1, Elite Shock Trooper 2, Slug-Ray Facility 2, Sentry Gun 2, Cutter 3, Helicopter 3, Sledgeworm 3; boards at 2, 2, 2, 3, 3 and 4 for the ones above, and the Grandmaster Board for 5 — the only way to get it. Buy it before Chadley.

Field-only pieces: Riot Trooper Barracks, Monodrive, Sweeper and Assassin Board III come from chests. Junk-Shop-only units: Security Officer Barracks (Vanguard) for 100 gil — one guide says 600 — Missile Launcher (Ranged) 300 and M.O.T.H. Unit (Defense) 500. The Junk Shop rotates between four lists, and its one-off stock also includes Wind, HP Absorption, MP Absorption and Luck Up Materia, an Elixir, Iron Maiden, Astral Cuff and Force Bracelet.

Beating Chadley earns Game, Set, Master. On Hard, every opponent fields a tougher board, only an HQ kill wins, sudden death is one minute, and beating Chadley earns Condor Queen.

Side content

Discovery	Giver	Task	Reward
Mastering Fort Condor	Polk	win the matches	see above
The Happy Turtle Ad Campaign	Old Snapper	find six flyers	Magnify Materia
Chadley’s simulator	Chadley	beat Ramuh in VR	Ramuh Materia

The six flyers: on the wall behind the cardboard boxes in the kids’ play area south of Old Snapper; knocked out of the turtle balloon by Wedge’s house (hop the crate, throw); on the second-floor balcony of the apartment block west of the item shop, past the sleeping guard dog; carried off by a cat in the northwest culvert (the right cat is the one behind the barrels); on the Pillar Plaza notice board under a Shinra poster; and on the wall of the Talagger factory’s far east room after the two Venomantis. All six is Turtle-tastic.

Bosses

Ramuh (simulator) — weak to wind; lightning does nothing useful. Lingering lightning fields, a big single bolt, tracking orbs, sword combos. Below about half health he tethers three sparks to the ground: destroy them or Judgment Bolt ends the fight. A Limit Break interrupts it.
Horned Cripshay — ice. Gozu Drive.
Levrikon — fire and ice. Mezu Drive.
Gigantipede — resists everything but lightning. Head takes physical, tail takes magic; lightning on the tail staggers it fast. From around three quarters health it climbs the walls and its Containment Drones paint targets for missiles — shoot them down (lightning again) and it crashes back in. In the last third it grows a drill head and the drones never stop coming. Pays 1,200 gil.

Hard mode only

Every fight gives a Secrets of the Ninja volume for Yuffie and a Secrets of the Staff volume for Sonon. Ten of the fourteen pairs are in this chapter:

Vol. I–VII — the seven Fort Condor opponents, Kyrie through Chadley, in the order of the table above.
Vol. VIII — the Horned Cripshay.
Vol. IX — the Levrikon.
Vol. X — the Gigantipede. Some of its drones carry Shield (hit with magic) or Reflect (hit physically) on Hard.

The Corneo Lackeys pay only the armlet, on any difficulty.

Game Notes

The cleverest thing INTERmission does is reuse the slums. The base game spent a day and a half teaching you who lives here; this chapter lets you walk through as a stranger and notice how much of it you already know. Wedge is outside his house, Jessie is on the bar’s patio, and Johnny wants a game. It costs the developers one map and buys a lot of warmth.

Fort Condor deserves more credit than it gets. It is a real game, with a rock-paper-scissors core and a deck-building layer of boards and units. The coin shop and the hidden pieces in chests and the Junk Shop make the whole chapter a scavenger hunt for it. Chadley on Normal is a genuine wall, and beating him without dropping to Easy is the most satisfying thing in the episode.

The chase that follows is weaker — a long run of conveyor belts and climbing walls — but it is generous with chests, and it hands you the Steel Reaper, which turns out to matter a great deal in the next chapter.

Everything in this area

Slums outskirts

Hi-Potion x2 (outskirts warehouse, ground floor)Copy missableitemDrop down after you bring the first elevator down with a shuriken throw. The chest is in a ground-floor corner.Lost after: The end of INTERmission Chapter 1.Get another: Chapter Select.
HP Up Materia (outskirts warehouse, upper ledge)Copy missablemateriaOn a high ledge in the warehouse. Send the second elevator up to reach it.Lost after: The end of INTERmission Chapter 1.Get another: Chapter Select, or buy one at any slum item shop or vending machine.
Power WristguardsCopy missablearmourJust past the door with the moogle poster, beside the yellow bins and the crashed containers.Lost after: The end of INTERmission Chapter 1.Get another: Chapter Select, or the slum weapons shop.
Wind Materia (scaffold tower)Copy missablemateriaBefore the moogle gate, walk clockwise round the pit and climb the ladder on the other tower. Wind is what the optional summon fight in Chadley's simulator is weak to, so do not walk past it.Lost after: The end of INTERmission Chapter 1.Get another: Chapter Select, though a replay gives a Healing Materia instead. The Junk Shop in town also stocks one in one of its rotations.
1,000 gil (tunnel dead end)Copy missableitemIn the dead end of the tunnel past the moogle gate.Lost after: The end of INTERmission Chapter 1.Get another: Chapter Select.
MP Up Materia (Scrap Boulevard cave)Copy missablemateriaFollow the moogle posters at the fork. The chest is in a small cave on the left beside the locked gate.Lost after: The end of INTERmission Chapter 1.Get another: Chapter Select, or buy one at any slum item shop or vending machine.

Avalanche's hideout

BoomerangCopy missableweaponBottom of the basement stairs in the clinic that fronts Avalanche's base, on the left. Yuffie's second weapon. A Potion comes with it.Lost after: The end of INTERmission Chapter 1.Get another: Chapter Select, or one of the Chapter 2 vending machines.
Fort Condor starter packcollectiblePolk hands it over when you talk to him for the intel round: the Starter Board plus Security Officer (Vanguard), Guard Dog (Vanguard), Grenadier (Ranged), Slug-Ray (Ranged), Riot Trooper (Defense) and Blast-Ray (Defense).
List of Flyer Clueskey-itemNayo points you to Old Snapper, the dancing man with the sign south of the base. He gives you the list and starts The Happy Turtle Ad Campaign. He also runs the Condor Coin shop.

Fort Condor

Discovery: Mastering Fort CondorCopy missablesidequestThe board game. Vanguard beats Ranged, Ranged beats Defense, Defense beats Vanguard. Destroy the enemy headquarters, or hold more of their outposts when time runs out. Opponents unlock by rank and each is marked on the map. There is an Easy setting and the rewards are the same on it. Beating the Grandmaster earns Game, Set, Master.Lost after: Boarding the train at the end of the chapter.Get another: Chapter Select.
Fort Condor: Polk (tutorial)Copy missablecollectibleInside the hideout. Win the practice match for Sentry Gun Prototype (Defense) and a Condor Coin. Your first rank-up adds Sorcerer Board I and Helitrooper (Vanguard).Lost after: Boarding the train at the end of the chapter.Get another: Chapter Select.
Fort Condor: Kyrie (rank 1)Copy missablecollectibleNorthwest of the slums, near Stargazer Heights and west of the item shop. Pays Elite Security Officer (Vanguard) and Condor Coins.Lost after: Boarding the train at the end of the chapter.Get another: Chapter Select.
Fort Condor: Shinra Middle Manager (rank 1)Copy missablecollectibleSitting at a table east of Seventh Heaven. Pays Elite Grenadier (Ranged) and Condor Coins.Lost after: Boarding the train at the end of the chapter.Get another: Chapter Select.
Fort Condor: Johnny (rank 1)Copy missablecollectibleIn the alley northeast of the hideout, south of the item shop. Pays Elite Riot Trooper (Defense) and Condor Coins. Clearing all three rank 1 players pays Battalion Board I, Assassin Board I and Sorcerer Board II.Lost after: Boarding the train at the end of the chapter.Get another: Chapter Select.
Fort Condor: Jessie (rank 2)Copy missablecollectibleOn the Seventh Heaven patio. Pays Grenadier Barracks (Ranged) and Condor Coins.Lost after: Boarding the train at the end of the chapter.Get another: Chapter Select.
Fort Condor: Roche (rank 2)Copy missablecollectiblePillar Plaza, by the factory entrance and the notice board. Pays Elite Helitrooper (Vanguard) and Condor Coins. Clearing rank 2 adds Battalion Board II and Assassin Board II.Lost after: Boarding the train at the end of the chapter.Get another: Chapter Select.
Fort Condor: Wedge (rank 3)Copy missablecollectibleOutside his house in the southeast of the residential area. Pays Armored Shock Trooper (Defense) and a Condor Coin, and the rank-up adds Battalion Board III.Lost after: Boarding the train at the end of the chapter.Get another: Chapter Select.
Fort Condor: Chadley (Grandmaster)Copy missablemateriaThe last and hardest board. Pays AP Up Materia, 10,000 gil and four Condor Coins, and earns Game, Set, Master. Spend coins on the Grandmaster Board first.Lost after: Boarding the train at the end of the chapter.Get another: Chapter Select.
Condor Coin shop (Old Snapper)referencePrices in coins. Boards: Battalion Board I 2, Assassin Board I 2, Sorcerer Board II 2, Battalion Board II 3, Assassin Board II 3, Battalion Board III 4, Grandmaster Board 5. Units: Shock Trooper (Vanguard) 1, Sentry Ray (Ranged) 1, Elite Shock Trooper (Ranged) 2, Slug-Ray Facility (Ranged) 2, Sentry Gun (Defense) 2, Cutter (Vanguard) 3, Helicopter (Defense) 3, Sledgeworm (Defense) 3. Stock grows with your rank.
Grandmaster BoardCopy missablecollectibleFive Condor Coins from Old Snapper. Nothing gives it to you; the shop is the only source.Lost after: Boarding the train at the end of the chapter.Get another: Chapter Select.
Junk Shop (tunnel behind Seventh Heaven)Copy missableSources disagreereferenceThe stock rotates through four lists as the chapter moves on and as you play Fort Condor matches, and one-off items sell out. Across the four: Wind Materia, HP Absorption Materia, MP Absorption Materia, Luck Up Materia, an Elixir, Iron Maiden, Astral Cuff, Force Bracelet, and three units found nowhere else — Security Officer Barracks (Vanguard) 100 gil, Missile Launcher (Ranged) 300 gil, M.O.T.H. Unit (Defense) 500 gil. Check it every time you pass.Lost after: Boarding the train at the end of the chapter.Get another: Chapter Select.Sources disagree: One guide prices the Security Officer Barracks at 600 gil; it costs 100.

Happy Turtle flyers

Discovery: The Happy Turtle Ad CampaignCopy missablesidequestFind Old Snapper's six flyers and take them back to him for Magnify Materia. All six earns Turtle-tastic. Each flyer becomes a numbered Happy Turtle Newsletter key item.Lost after: Boarding the train at the end of the chapter.Get another: Chapter Select.
Happy Turtle flyer (kids' play area)Copy missablekey-itemJust south of Old Snapper. Walk through the stacked cardboard boxes; it is on the wall behind them.Lost after: Boarding the train at the end of the chapter.Get another: Chapter Select.
Happy Turtle flyer (turtle balloon by Wedge's house)Copy missablekey-itemSoutheast residential area. Hop the crate beside Wedge and throw a shuriken at the floating turtle balloon. The flyer lands near the children in the street.Lost after: Boarding the train at the end of the chapter.Get another: Chapter Select.
Happy Turtle flyer (apartment balcony, guard dog)Copy missablekey-itemSecond floor of the apartment block west of the item shop. Move only while the dog sleeps and hide behind boxes when it wakes. The flyer is on the wall near the corner; the ladder behind the dog leads to a Chakra Materia.Lost after: Boarding the train at the end of the chapter.Get another: Chapter Select.
Happy Turtle flyer (the cat in the culvert)Copy missablekey-itemNorthwest, where the cats gather. A cat runs off with it; the right one is at the back behind the barrels. Chasing the wrong cat costs nothing.Lost after: Boarding the train at the end of the chapter.Get another: Chapter Select.
Happy Turtle flyer (Pillar Plaza notice board)Copy missablekey-itemOn the notice board just before the station, half hidden under a Shinra poster.Lost after: Boarding the train at the end of the chapter.Get another: Chapter Select.
Happy Turtle flyer (Talagger factory, far east room)Copy missableSources disagreekey-itemKill the two enemies in the room and break the boxes; the flyer is on the wall. They poison, sleep and slow you, so come with Sonon. First Strike Materia is in the same room.Lost after: Boarding the train at the end of the chapter.Get another: Chapter Select.Sources disagree: Most guides call the two enemies guarding it Venomantis; one says Terpsicolt.

Chadley's simulator

Chadley's simulator: Ramuh MateriaCopy missableSources disagreemateriaChadley stands near the Neighborhood Watch headquarters. A two-person fight against Ramuh in VR. Weak to wind; do not bring lightning. Below about half health he summons three tethered sparks — destroy them before Judgment Bolt lands, which ends the fight. A Limit Break interrupts it. Many of his hits stun.Lost after: Boarding the train at the end of the chapter.Get another: Chapter Select.Sources disagree: Guides agree lightning is useless against him; they split on whether he resists it or absorbs it.

Scouting Sector 7

Riot Trooper Barracks (Defense) (beside Wedge's house)Copy missablecollectibleSoutheast corner beside Wedge's house, near the turtle balloon. A Fort Condor unit you cannot buy.Lost after: Boarding the train at the end of the chapter.Get another: Chapter Select, though a replay gives a Potion instead.
Warding MateriaCopy missablemateriaThrough the scrap tunnel in the northwest, in the open area where a woman is telling children a story. At the back, under a metal ladder.Lost after: Boarding the train at the end of the chapter.Get another: Chapter Select, though a replay gives a Healing Materia instead.
Chakra Materia (apartment roof)Copy missablemateriaThe apartment block west of the item shop. Sneak past the guard dog on the balcony, take the flyer, and climb the ladder behind the dog to the roof.Lost after: Boarding the train at the end of the chapter.Get another: Chapter Select, though a replay gives a Healing Materia instead.
Hi-Potion x2 (behind the oil drums)Copy missableitemAt the back of the cats' area in the northwest, behind the oil drums, on the flyer route.Lost after: Boarding the train at the end of the chapter.Get another: Chapter Select.
Monodrive (Ranged) (Talagger factory, north room)Copy missablecollectibleThe factory is off Pillar Plaza. In its northernmost room, smash the wooden crates to uncover a yellow pod. A Fort Condor unit you cannot buy.Lost after: Boarding the train at the end of the chapter.Get another: Chapter Select, though a replay gives a Potion instead.
Chakra Materia (Talagger factory)Copy missablemateriaIn the southwest corner of the factory, near the bench and vending machine, inside breakable boxes.Lost after: Boarding the train at the end of the chapter.Get another: Chapter Select, though a replay gives a Healing Materia instead.
First Strike MateriaCopy missablemateriaThe factory's far east room. Kill the two enemies and break the boxes. The last Happy Turtle flyer is on the wall here.Lost after: Boarding the train at the end of the chapter.Get another: Chapter Select, though a replay gives a Healing Materia instead.

The handoff

Chthonian ArmletarmourFor beating the three Corneo Lackeys at the Municipal Storage yard, the first fight with Sonon. Four slots, two linked. Fire works on them.
Interplate ID CardprogressionThe forger in the factory building hands it over. Story item.
Kindred CordCopy missableaccessoryOn the way back to base, leave by the new exit and break the wall at the end. The chest is beside it.Lost after: Boarding the train at the end of the chapter.Get another: Chapter Select, though a replay gives a Potion instead.
Deadline: heading to the pillar ("Change of Plans")progressionOnce you set off for the pillar the chapter leaves the slums and does not give you a proper free roam again. Finish Fort Condor, the flyers, Chadley's fight and the town chests before this.

Station and shipping facility

Indurate StaffCopy missableweaponPurple chest in the open yard past the station fence gate. Sonon's second staff. A Potion comes with it.Lost after: The end of INTERmission Chapter 1.Get another: Chapter Select, or a Chapter 2 vending machine.
Sweeper (Ranged)Copy missablecollectibleBottom of the side stairs in the shipping facility, past a group of Cripshays. A Fort Condor unit you cannot buy.Lost after: The end of INTERmission Chapter 1.Get another: Chapter Select, though a replay gives a Potion instead.
Prayer MateriaCopy missablemateriaAfter the conveyor switch you hit through the gap in the fence, go down the nearby ladder. It is on the ground after two Lesser Drakes.Lost after: The end of INTERmission Chapter 1.Get another: Chapter Select.

Storage depot

Fight: Horned CripshaybossWeak to ice. Pays the Gozu Drive the first time you beat it.
Steel ReaperCopy missableweaponPurple chest at the top of the yellow pole after the Horned Cripshay, before the climbing wall. Yuffie's third weapon; its Banishment ability is the key to the box-smashing challenge in Chapter 2. A Potion comes with it.Lost after: The end of INTERmission Chapter 1.Get another: Chapter Select, or a Chapter 2 vending machine.
Elixir (behind the switch)Copy missableitemBehind the switch where Zhijie was standing when Yuffie fell.Lost after: The end of INTERmission Chapter 1.Get another: Chapter Select.
Assassin Board IIICopy missablecollectibleIn the climbing-wall puzzle, at the top of the left stairs after three Toxirats. A Fort Condor board you cannot buy.Lost after: The end of INTERmission Chapter 1.Get another: Chapter Select, though a replay gives a Potion instead.
Turbo EtherCopy missableitemThe north platform of the climbing-wall puzzle, guarded by three Gorgers.Lost after: The end of INTERmission Chapter 1.Get another: Chapter Select.
Elemental MateriaCopy missablemateriaOn the middle platform of the climbing-wall puzzle. Reset the walls to reach it. The walls move back and forth, so nothing here locks you out.Lost after: The end of INTERmission Chapter 1.Get another: Chapter Select, though a replay gives a Healing Materia instead.

Waste disposal plant

Fight: LevrikonbossWeak to fire and ice. Pays the Mezu Drive the first time you beat it.
Magic Up MateriaCopy missablemateriaAt the end of the run of pipes and crates, jump off to the left.Lost after: The end of INTERmission Chapter 1.Get another: Chapter Select, though a replay gives a Healing Materia instead.

Main pillar maintenance

Lightning Materia (main pillar maintenance)Copy missablemateriaOn the floor at the end of the walkway, by the last bench and vending machine. Equip it before the next door: the boss wants it.Lost after: The end of INTERmission Chapter 1.Get another: Chapter Select, or buy one at a slum shop.
Boss: GigantipedeSources disagreebossResists every element except lightning. The tail takes magic only and its stagger gauge fills fast under lightning; the head takes physical. Set Elemental Ninjutsu to lightning, throw at the tail, then Synergy the head while it is Pressured. When it climbs the walls, shoot down the Containment Drones (weak to lightning) to drop it. Poison pools and homing rockets throughout; a drill head near the end. Pays 1,200 gil.Sources disagree: One guide says it is not weak to lightning and that the head is the weak point. Most guides put lightning on the tail and physical hits on the head.
Shinra Employee ID CardprogressionZhijie hands it over after the boss. Story item.

Hard mode only

Secrets of the Ninja Vol. I + Secrets of the Staff Vol. I (Hard)key-itemBeat Kyrie at Fort Condor on Hard. Hard unlocks once INTERmission is cleared and plays chapters from Chapter Select. On Hard only an HQ kill wins and sudden death is one minute. Every source of a volume gives both characters' copies at once.
Secrets of the Ninja Vol. II + Secrets of the Staff Vol. II (Hard)key-itemBeat the Shinra Middle Manager at Fort Condor on Hard.
Secrets of the Ninja Vol. III + Secrets of the Staff Vol. III (Hard)key-itemBeat Johnny at Fort Condor on Hard.
Secrets of the Ninja Vol. IV + Secrets of the Staff Vol. IV (Hard)key-itemBeat Jessie at Fort Condor on Hard.
Secrets of the Ninja Vol. V + Secrets of the Staff Vol. V (Hard)key-itemBeat Roche at Fort Condor on Hard.
Secrets of the Ninja Vol. VI + Secrets of the Staff Vol. VI (Hard)key-itemBeat Wedge at Fort Condor on Hard.
Secrets of the Ninja Vol. VII + Secrets of the Staff Vol. VII (Hard)key-itemBeat Chadley, the Grandmaster, at Fort Condor on Hard. Also pays 30,000 gil, and earns Condor Queen.
Secrets of the Ninja Vol. VIII + Secrets of the Staff Vol. VIII (Hard)key-itemThe Horned Cripshay in the storage depot, on Hard.
Secrets of the Ninja Vol. IX + Secrets of the Staff Vol. IX (Hard)key-itemThe Levrikon in the waste disposal plant, on Hard.
Secrets of the Ninja Vol. X + Secrets of the Staff Vol. X (Hard)key-itemThe Gigantipede, on Hard. Some of its drones carry Shield (use magic) or Reflect (use physical).

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