The start of disk 3

Well...it left off with dagger, Bextrix, Steiner and Doc Tot on the boat back at the castle. Its really a sad moment in some parts of the start of disk 3. Anyways the scene will move to Zidane and the others with what has happened. You see him moping around in the pub with the others trying to cheer him up. Then they next head for Ruby's mini theatre. As they run out Vivi is seen and blank bumps into him they have a small talk. Head into the pub to see Zidane. Or you can see what items you can get first before going in there. If you keep on going you will trigger a cutscene of Eiko. After that do what you need to do and then head to the pub. Zidane won't talk to you so just head to the theatre place. The scene in the start of disk 3 is really long so I am just going to skip a whole bunch of things on that. The next place you need to go is to Treno.

This one I hate the card game. I just quickly get it over and done with as soon as. Am I the only one who dislikes the game card tournament? Anyways do your best you HAVE to win it. The best thing to do is win your first round and then go and save go back and do this process again. So that if you lose you have something to fall on without any trouble. So you have won the card tournament Cid will talk to Zidane, and not so far off Eiko should come running bring news saying that Alexandria is in danger. So that sets things off for going for your next location. In the late night of Alexandria. Kuja continues with his plans of destruction. And so the scene will play for a bit. Bahamnut will be summoned to attack Alexandria. Things will happen you will have to give orders to the knights of pluto. And then Steiner and Beatrix will set out into the streets to fight. So this fight will take sometime before the next cutscene happens. Dagger will wake up saying that she hears music. Go up the stairs. Remember where she came out of the door when she first met Zidane? You need to go through there. If you can't remember then here is some pictures







Go up the stairs and keep on going. Keep going until the next scene happens. Then the others will show almost at Alexandria. Something will happen and Eiko will fall off the ship to meet up with dagger. She will explain things and they will both summon Alexander. More scenes will happen. The others will get to the castle. Zidane will say to the others to leave so he can find dagger and Eiko. Follow the path that you took as dagger to get to them. The next drama scene is one of my favorites. The invincible will do something to Alexander's wings and causing it to die. Something bad happens, in a desperate pearl Zidane makes it to dagger before her fall. So anyways back to the normal scene the invincible will attack again destroying most of Alexandria. Zidane, Eiko and dagger are not heard of until the scene happens. When you gain control of Zidane go and look for dagger. She is in a place you know very well that only Zidane knows of. When you find her things are not really as it appear to be. When that scene is over another time active event should show up. Watch it to know the next place to go for the storyline wise. Blank will be waiting for you. So you need to go to the royal chamber to see Cid.

And so the meeting will happen. Cid will reveal some facts about what happened when he saw Kuja escape which is not pretty to know at all. The next time event will play so sadly you will have to watch it. When It ends the party will continue to talk. And then doc tot will shortly come in during the meeting. And then Eiko comes running saying of daggers voice. Dagger has lost the will to speak. And so Zidane and some others go to her. Eiko said that’s shes in the guest room this is actually a sad moment as dagger has lost her voice to talk with. Let me say this now. Don't use her for battle until she can talk again 1 because he trance will be no longer. And too she will miss some attacks or heals due to her loss of contraction. I will say when you have to fight with her which will not be a choice for you at all. So anyways you will report back to Cid about daggers condition and whatnot. The only way to find Kuja if he turns back into a human. But with his wife gone and nowhere to be found. All hope seems to be lost. Doc tot suggests another way by getting special potions that could reverse the spell called unusual potion, beautiful potion and strange potion. These all can be found in lindblum. Cinna has the unusual potion so go to the theatre district to go and get it. Before you that in the theatre district go to this place first. In here you will find the strange potion here are the pictures







Then next get the unusual potion from Cinna. To get the beautiful potion its with the woman who used to sell items, in the business district. Go and talk to her and she will give it to you. Head back to the castle to let Cid try the potion but the effect grows more worse turning him into a frog instead of a human. Another meeting will happen. Your next destination is to go back to the black mage village. And remember don’t use dagger for the meantime she's no help now that her voice is gone like I said. So just use Eiko. So you will be traveling on the sea in a boat. I can't remember the name but go to the outer continent to go back to the black mage village to know what is happening and why the black mages went with Kuja. When you get to the village you need to go to the resting place of the other black mages who died. You should see someone there. Talk to him and he will explain everything he stayed behind and 2 others as well. Because of the egg the baby chocobo is about to be born. The others left because Kuja said that there was a way to extend their lifespan which was a lie. Vivi will run off. He will be at the chocobo shelter the chocobo has finally been born! The scene will continue on Vivi will go back outside to talk to the head black mage. He will reveal where the others are which is Kujas hideout. Here's a link video of how to get there. I will also have a video of how to get to the forgotten continent as well. So that I don't need to explain the cutscenes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhFlwFxxar4

Be warned the next place is a hard place to train. also...you won't be able to use any magic at all so make sure you choose the right team. You might have to also leave Eiko behind. But that is up to you of how you plan things your way. Also an advice. Make sure you are carrying a lot of anointment's on you because when an enemy uses trouble knife on you or a slap your party will get hit at the same time when that person is affected with it. And that my friend will not be pleasant at all. Here's another link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2umbR1Esijo&list=PLC12A55DAA246498C&index=59

So do as what Kuja said and get back to help the others. When that storyline is done it will shift to the others who are still trapped. You will have to play as Cid to do this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMVNsOqKcsU&index=60&list=PLC12A55DAA246498C

You might get confused in one area it took this person sometime to do it so I'll just put up some sceenshots of it to make things a little more easier. You will need to do the shows rightly. First light all of the candles on this side to get the bloodstone. And then take off all of the candles except this one.



You need the shadow pointing to the left. Then go to the other side to do this.



Do the same for this side. Light up all of the candles to get the bloodstone, and then fire out these ones except for this candle. The shadow should go to the left as well opening up a hidden stairwell. You will be fighting your next boss

Boss 16

This boss should be swift it doesn't have a name so....anyways it will detect the bloodstones. You should had taken all of them. So it should be an easily fight if you have Vivi on the team. Defeat it by summoning or using black magic on it.

After the boss re light the candle to get out of the area. And then the scene will shift to Zidane and the others back outside of Kujas hideout. Back to Zidanes party head for Kujas room and he will be somewhere else. He will escort you to where he is. He will as you have seen re captured the others. But wait. The scene shifts to the others who are waiting outside for him. There will be a blue light and that’s when the real Eiko, dagger, Freya and Vivi will show. So it’s a trap! They will try to stop Zidane and Eiko somehow gets caught by Zorn and Thorn. They will escape again with Eiko. Follow Kuja. To stop him from leaving. But, as you get there its too late. Keep on running until you reach outside. A little scene will happen and then kick the ladder to get down. Head back to the ship at once to follow Kuja! So you will end up following him to the lost continent. Since you don't have Eiko you will need to use dagger sadly. So when you get off you need to go to the left to this place.



That is *Esto Gaza.* head on into the building. Talk to the priest of the whereabouts of Eiko. Just to let you know if you go to the right there is a shop around. So stock up if you need too and then head for *Mount Gulug.* you will be outside. You can go on top to see shimmering island. But, the path that you actually need to go through is the right. Make sure that you buy a lot and I mean a lot of vaccine as you'll need it. Why? When you get hit by the virus you think it does nothing. Beat the enemy to find out the virus stops giving you exp points to level up that’s why. This place may confuse you so I'll put up a link here of what you have to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly75o481R8M

You will fight your next boss it also shows that in the link.

Boss 17
Meltigemini

You'll face Zorn and Thorn for the last time. Just attack or use necessary black magic to beat him. But remember he will sometimes do a virus attack onto your party. When he does use the vaccine. He shouldn't really be that hard to beat. Also you might also wanna steal gold hairpin and demon vest from him.

After the battle you'll find a lady to reveal herself as Cids wife Hilda. Who Cid and the others been looking for a long time. She states of Kujas plans and also the next hint of your next destination to follow Kuja too. After sometime Cid will return back to a human and work on the ship to track kuja down. There will be another meeting. Dagger seems to have gone missing again. Steiner goes and looks for her, she will not be in the usual look out place. During the meeting another time active event will play and you will have to watch it. There is a lot of details and things going on in this part. So instead, I'll link a video for you to see.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7Ukw_s6Ceo&index=65&list=PLC12A55DAA246498C

There are other places you can explore. But I would like you to find them instead of me doing that. There are other sidequests, but I won't mention all of them just the chocobo one. I know that this is a walkthrough. But, I like to give the joy experience of letting the gamers to look for those locations themselves. When you have done those. Ok on with the story here's another link video for *Ispens Castle* that you need to explore. Reason being that, it will be hard for me to explain things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvEqRrOvJ70&list=PLC12A55DAA246498C&index=69

So at the end of the video the others say that you need to look for the 4 shrines to break the seals at the same time. This means that the party will be splitting up. You need to find the shrines which is a pain so here is the location of the water shine, the fire shrine, the wind shrine and the earth shrine.









make sure to prepare as you'll be facing your next boss.

Boss 18
Earth Shrine Guardian

So...this guy is easy....the only thing that you need to look out of his earthquake attack as that can deal a lot of damage. Use malta magic to keep Zidane and Quina from dying. Also make sure to steal as well from him. Keep on going until he has been defeated.

So after that everyone will get picked up and then head for shimmering island. So that you can get to Terra. From this part on things get really emotional. Like literally. You will see what I mean as you go on further with the storyline. Instead of me talking about it I'll link you the videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWHtFQogvNM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQhQFvWB0Rs

So...when Zidane gets his priorities straight from dagger. Find a way out from the castle as it is dreadful especially the music. But this might annoying you so here's another link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeFLK0YG09U&list=PLC12A55DAA246498C&index=74

In this video shows your next 3 bosses who are silver dragon, garland and Kuja. You will have to fight these guys one on one. And there won't be any rest.

Boss 19
Silver dragon

So you might want to watch out for some of its attack, especially shockwave. which can damage you badly and then your hp goes down to 1. He has dragon mail so make sure to steal it when you can. Aerial slash is another attack which causes damage to the entire party.

Boss 20
Garland

Ok this guy will be annoying. First things first. Make sure your party is fully equipped on being immune to stop. And this is called *locomotion.* because garland will cast stop. If you don't use locomotion, then you will have a hard time beating him. Do that and the battle should be easier to do. Garland shouldn't take too long to beat. Afterwards will be Kuja

Boss 21

Kuja

Kuja will use a lot of black magic on you. So make sure that your party is healed at the right times. If you have Freya in your party then use jump attack on Kuja. Use any necessary means to beat him with any party member that you have. When you do get to the end of the battle Kuja will transform into trance Kuja.

So after the battle Kuja will get rid of garland. And without letting Kuja know something. After hearing that Kuja goes crazy by destroying Terra itself. This shows in the drama scene. The others escape. Zidane and dagger go to gather the genomes. While the others aboard the invincible ship to make haste to escape. When that happens. That will be the end of disc 3

Disc 4
At the start of disc 4. A scene will come on seeing the black mage village. After the scene head for the lifa tree. For the final battle. There will be dragons who come out, who tries to stop your way from entering into the lifa tree. Beatrix and Cid will come on their ships to attack the other dragons to make way for you. As you enter you'll face your next boss

Boss 21
A Dragon.

Like most dragons this one is kind of hard to beat. The one move that you need to look out for is shockbeam. That takes out amount of damage to your whole party so make sure you heal when that happens. This is a stubborn dragon so it won't die so easily. Use dragon crest if you have Freya on you as that is an effective attack. And also for Steiner use his abilities to attack as they are also effective. Once you have beaten this boss you'll be in the heart of the lifa tree.

Then someone starts to talk to Zidane and to your surprise its garland still alive he guides the way for you. And says in some details of where you are and what it is. When you get inside. You'll see this thing as you go up the steps. When you press x this is what it will show.





So do what you have to do before moving on. So make your way down the stairs in the next room and through the hallways. Your next boss will come soon, once you get to this area.



I'm going to put up a link. As it will get harder for me to explain things. As some other things don't need to explain, but instead for you to watch and find out yourself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsQt0ctmIW4&index=81&list=PLC12A55DAA246498C

Boss 22
Maliris

You run into a familiar looking enemy that you faced before. Watch out as she is a lot more stronger than she was before. So make sure you heal your party at the right time. And again make sure that you steal from her. Watch out though when you give her the finishing hit. She will try an attack to take your party down with her so make sure they are well healed.

When you have done this keep on going further to find Kuja. From here a lot of things will be explained. You'll run into your next boss soon as you progress on. And that boss is from the water shrine as the water chaos.

Boss 23
Kraken

So he can heal himself. what you need to watch out for is he will use freeze attack. so make sure you set your abilities before going into this next boss battle. It might take sometime until he dies. but, keep on attacking him and also steal as well.

When you have defeated him. Press on and you should come near to the final area. I'm going to link you a video for the next part

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwshgZfoS4E&index=83&list=PLC12A55DAA246498C

boss 24
Lich

You really have to be careful once you face this guy, because he's much more harder. He will bring out attacks like doom and death. You will also need to watch out for this earthquakes attack as well. Keep your party at top shape by dealing a lot of critical attacks on the lich until you have beaten him. As he is the last boss of the 4 chaos guardian.


In the video it will show you another boss that you'll have to face before confronting trance Kuja.

I am going to show you the last video in this walkthrough to help you out. Kuja was not the final boss. There's someone else....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBE8BJBT4YM&index=84&list=PLC12A55DAA246498C

Well after that you have completed by defeating the final boss in ff9. The scene will roll I am not going to say what happens that’s for you to find out. I don't like spoiling things that can make someone so happy or sad. So....I hope this helps anyone. So until then from me. ^-^

on the bottom here will be the sidequest for the chocobo as I said before you can do sidequests if you want to do the chocobo one I suggest that you get a ship first. Also there will be bonus rounds like unlockable hidden bosses for you to face.

Chocobo Sidequest

First off you will need to find the chocobo forest again. Which Is east of lindblum. Once you go there you will meet a mog named Mene and a chocobo called Choco. Mene will try to get Choco to friend you, and he runs away in a sort. Go back outside to the world map and find some chocobo footprints once you do that use *Gysahl Greens* to summon Choco back to take him back to the forest. In this game its very much different. Its not like ff7 that, you'll run on it and the chocobo appears in battle. Once Choco chooses you to be his master that’s it. Sadly in this game you can not catch any chocobos apart from him. Go back to the forest Mene will say something talk to her again. And ask what's the big secret about? And the Mene will explain. Then play a game called hot or cold. The rules will be explained before you play the game its actually quite simple to do. I'll explain a bit more when Choco does this

Kweh it means no treasures nearby
when he does this

Kweh!? It means the treasure is nearby somewhere
and when he does this

Kwehhh!? It means, that you are getting close to digging that treasure out
and when he gives this final signal he. Will say this in full caps or more like screams it and will say

K-KWEHHH!!! That means you have hit the jackpot in finding the treasure directly. Quickly dig it out before the time runs out, and then try to find more, that’s if you have more time on you.

Also here are some more things that, you should know. The more you dig for treasures the better Choco's beak becomes. His beak will level up more to a more powerful beak, and making it easier for you to dig up, harder treasures.

in the forest Mene will give you 1 min to dig up treasures. Yes this game is about finding treasures. Mostly would be useable items and Gil. And the main one you need to get is called *Chocograph* once you find one Mene will re explain of what you need to do. Meaning taking Choco into the world map to find more treasures. I suggest you find all in the forest before looking for them outside. You have 9 chocographs to find, and here are the names of them that should appear in order once you find them. Keep on finding the chocographs until Mene says *Choco says he can't find any more chocographs here for now* when you get points you can trade those points with these things



If my explaining is not understandable enough, here is the link for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQLzmrJ30p4

Streamside

Between mountains

Uncultivated land

Healing shore

Abandoned beach

Cold field

Faraway lagoon

Birds-eye lagoon

Small beach

To find them, you'll need to open up the chocograph menu to click on one to find. A small picture will be placed on top of the map, giving you some clue on where the treasure chest might be. When you get the *Healing shore* treasure chest. Its actually not one. A puff of white smoke will appear causing Choco to drift off to sleep. And that’s....where you meet the fat chocobo. He will tell Choco of his abilities that he can learn and such. Choco will gain a new ability and transform into a blue chocobo. You can run on water with this ability, but only the shallow part of it sadly. When that scene is over continue to look, until you have gotten all of the treasures. Now. The next place to go is called *chocobo lagoon* if you are not so sure how to find it. You can either go back to the chocobo forest to ask Mene of it. Or here's a link to find it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRuJLj8QWjI

In this lagoon there is not much space to dig around. And Choco hates deep water so watch out for when you play chocobo hot and cold. Do the same process as you did for the chocobo forest. Mene will reduce the price to 30 Gil, so that would mean you have 30 seconds in time, to find any treasure chest. And it’s a lot more harder there, so it will take sometime to get new chocographs in this place. Here is the list of the other chocographs in the chocobo lagoon.

Forgotten lagoon

Abandoned lagoon < This one you can not get yet. I suggest that you move onto the next one then come back for this.

Dawn lagoon < Another puff of white smoke will appear and Choco. Will drift of to sleep again. Then he will stand before the fat chocobo again. Choco will gain a new ability to walk through the mountains. In this game he is the red chocobo for that. And in ff7 the green chocobo walks the mountains.

Dusk plains < This will not be opened up to you as of yet, until Choco becomes the flaming red chocobo.

Once you have gotten all of the treasures from the chocographs in the chocobo lagoon. Find Mene again and you will need to find another new place called *chocobos air garden* but you can not get there until you have the gold chocobo. So what you have to do now is, go back to the chocobo's forest and look for some more chocographs. There will be some new places to climb on that you can also explore while playing chocobo hot and cold. When Mene says there is no more go back to the chocobo lagoon and do the same from there until all of the chocographs are collected. Find 4 chocogrphs in the chocobo forest when you find the forth one. Mene will say go to chocobo lagoon to look for some more. Or go out treasure hunting. Here are the 4 chocographs

Forbidden forest < This treasure is near the village of Dali

Green plains < Another puff of white smoke will appear and you will know what happens. You will meet with the fat chocobo again. And choco will turn into a purple looking chocobo. This ability will give you to walk the ocean yes the deep end ones.

Forgotten plains < The treasure here is a bit to the north if ispen castle, to the left of where some grass parts are.

Cold lagoon < This place is inaccessible for now. So when choco gains new ability you will be able to go there.

You can either go and hunt these treasures outside, or continue to look for some more. I rather go and hunt them. Because that way it will be easier for me to know what more treasures I can list here. The chocographs in the chocobo lagoon is....

Sea at dusk

Ocean

Mist Ocean < And again Choco will fall asleep. Choco will turn into a goldish yellow chocobo meaning the new ability that he gets is to fly.

Outer land 2 < This place is inaccessible for now. So when Choco gains new ability you will be able to go there. To fly you will need to go into a forest and press x when you have done that fly and land on an area.

And also Mene will leave some tips on how to use the dead pepper outside. The chocobo air garden is a little hard to find, so here is what you need to do. Find a shadow of the sort like this picture for an example.



When you do hover on top of it get Choco to fly. Make him reach the sky until you can't go any further and then use the *Dead pepper* that should send him straight up to the chocobo air garden. When you play hot and cold in this area it will be a bit strange to do because of how it is placed. You will have 1min to play. Also you can ascend and descend from one ledge to another. Just make sure you find the chocographs until Mene says the usual line of no more being in the area. She will also say some few other things too. When you have found all go out and look for the treasures.

Outer Island < Most of these places you have to fly and land on, as there will not be any shores.

Fairy island

Forgotten island

Once you have done this find the chocobo paradise.

Secret places Choco can go to

You can also explore more secret places they are in a wall but cracked. You can get Choco to eat dead pepper in order to obtain them. And also there are hidden places as well. Like look for some cracked areas in the mountains make sure you use dead pepper for this or you'll not be able to get those items.


deg2000 :

Eniitan : it looks like you put quite some work into making this. I know plenty of people appreciate these. Even me, it's only a matter of time before I try this game for myself. If I learned anything about preparing for an RPG game, it's that long games need huge guides.

MysteryMan007 : Why thank you. I do have a lot more walkthroughs already done, that's if you can find them in the walkthrough forum. I enjoy making walkthroughs. And also to help everyone with it as well. The walkthroughs I tend to do is long games and boy does it drain out a lot of energy for me. But, it is worth it for me if it can help those who are stuck in any games. ^-^