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** Want to save {{spoiler|Cid}}? Feed him fish. Not just ''any'' fish, mind you, you have to give him the fast-moving fish, otherwise he'll just get sicker. Granted, the game does hint at this; inspecting a regular fish in the menu gets the caption 'Just a fish', while a fast fish is 'A yummy fish', but what first-time player is going to be doing that? So you just fed him whatever fish you could get? Oops, you just killed off a poor, sick old man who'd done you nothing but good. I hope you're proud.

*** Later on, after acquiring the Airship, you probably have no reason to return to that old island. Would you guess that a very useful Esper washes ashore later on?

** Tifa's ultimate weapon is hidden in Midgar, and the only way to get to the area where you find it is by using a key you find buried in another location halfway around the world. There is a hint in finding a key from an NPC outside Midgar gates. Cait Sith's ultimate weapon is hidden atop the Shinra Tower when the player revisits Midgar near the end of the game, requiring them to climb back up 60+ stories and inspect a random locker.

*** To be fair, the game gives a subtle hint - during the first visit to the tower, inspecting the same locker will prompt a message about finding a megaphone, which is the type of weapon Cait Sith uses. But how is any player going to remember that?

** Getting the Celestial Mirror to ''unlock'' some of those ultimate weapons is, itself, pretty silly. First you have to win a chocobo race at Remiem Temple. Once you've managed that, you have to take the Cloudy Mirror to the Macalania Woods and reunite a man with his wife and child. When you do so, if you talk to the man twice, he'll ask you to find his kid, who has wandered off. If you go up a path that you may not instantly realise is even a path rather than [[Scenery Porn|awesome scenery]], which looks like it's a beam of light and thus something you wouldn't immediately suspect you could walk on, and which isn't visible on the minimap, and then go up a fork that was until ''that moment'' [[Dronejam|Drone Jammed]]. Now, bear in mind, this item has no use at all ''except'' as a key to boxes containing ultimate weapons.

** Valefor's second Overdrive, Energy Ray. Did you know it exists? If you haven't either read a guide or encountered Dark Valefor, you probably didn't. As for actually ''getting'' it, if you didn't talk to a dog in Besaid before you left, you won't have a chance to get it until you can throw down successfully with Dark Valefor. Bear in mind that the Dark Aeons are only exempt from being a collection of [[That One Boss|That One Bosses]] on a technicality.

** There's one bit even ''worse than that.'' At one point you can have a long sit down for a [[Maechen Period]] from the original Maechen himself. Periodically, you'll get a text box where you can either interrupt him to leave, or urge him to continue his story. But what you're ''supposed'' to do for this to count toward completion is NEITHER, and let him just keep rambling without you pressing a single button on your controller. If Maechen wasn't voiced by Dwight Schultz, this would be nearly as tedious and unbearable as the legendary hot-springs webcam sequence.

** Speaking of, the [[Comm Sphere]] sequences in Chapter 4 itself. Unless a guide is right by your side, you'd never know that a few scenes only appear after looking through the camera for a while, after other scenes that have nothing going on, and the whole Mi'ihen Highroad clusterfuck, of which, a number of potential targets don't give any completion points upon the reveal.