[WIP] FFX Main Walkthrough, use a different guide for all the side stuff

Im gonna try and write a guide to get your through the main story and get all the missable stuff.

Then you go do all the side stuff yourself without worrying that you cant 100% because you didnt get ONE primer or talk to ONE person.

How to use this guide

This is the best game I have ever played. There is no hesitation when someone asks me my favorite game. This is it. I played on ps2 when I was a child, then Vita and ps3 and now steam. If they make it for something else i would buy it a 5th time. I have bought it for friends and relatives.

This guide is intended for the player that wants to experience the story for themselves but not miss anything. I try not to spoil anything but there might be some. This guide is not intended for use with changing parameters. play the game the way it was meant to be played first then go crazy and ruin everything later if you want. f1 for x4 speed might be ok but i still think it ruins it. Supercharge your characters means at the beginning of their turn they get max HP, max MP and max overdrive. Unlock all skills will give you wakka and kimahri overdrives, it does not fill in the sphere grid.

Whenever i just write "continue" it means just do whatever you think you are supposed to do (probably go to the red arrow on the minimap), you cant mess anything up or miss anything at this part and im not going to sit here and literally hold your hand through the computer screen

try and talk to everyone, i would say more than 50% of the people in this game give you stuff. you probably dont need it but its nice to have for endgame customizing and stuff. Also, explore and look around, im not going to mention every single chest unless it has something missable in it, but there are tons of chests i dont mention with potions or remedies in them.

if i BOLD AND UNDERLINE AND ALL CAPS IT MEANS READ THIS ITS IMPORTANT

save at save spheres or at least touch them so you heal

if you are worried about missing stuff then create lots of new saves so you can go back to a old save if you do miss something

if an area has 2 chests and they have some gil and some potions i probably wont even mention it, you dont them to beat the game and you can farm monsters for them later. if a chest has something unique then i will mention it.

I would advise against reading too far ahead due to spoilers. the big spoilers i use the spoiler tag but i cant just tag everything. actually i guess i could... idk

sometimes i mention "endgame" there are lots of sidequests that at the end of the game we are going to go back and do, you could do them while you go through the area but most are easier to do later. and most unlock stuff you cant even use until later anyways.

interesting game mechanics

you might want to play a little of the game then come back and read this, basically i did some testing because i had questions and these are the answers:

If i attack with lets say tidus and he misses then i switch him out of the fight and he never participates again does he get AP at the end?
Yes.

If lets say wakka has a evade and counter weapon and he gets attacked but he evades and counters it then i switch him out of the fight and he doesnt participate again does he get AP at the end?
Yes.

Concert + Scalies

so you are standing on a boat, walk south to the crowd of people, talk to the people

yea ♥♥♥♥♥ you can have my autograph, my name's Tidus and I'm not a crybaby

now they have moved, run down the bridge, find the lady with a pink top and talk to her until she gives you 2 potions, shes the one that is running around not standing still. tell her you will get her tickets so she can see you swim around in a sphere of water

continue

fight the waves of little sinspawn, use the potions if you get scared. fight the tentacle boss: YOU CANT DIE SO DONT WORRY, it does a % based attack

continue

attack the scales that flicker, attack the machine thingy on the right whenever you can

Underground Scary Ocean Ruins

to the upper left of this first area is the al-bhed primer load save data, you would use this if you wanted to load from a previous save game. if this is your first playthrough dont worry about it.

continue

uh oh big scary fish! just attack it, this cant kill you either it also does %dmg

continue - light the fire

oh no scary spider kind of thing! hit it, use potions if necessary but you shouldn't need to. use grenades, when you run out steal more.

continue

go to the upper right corner and get the al-bhed primer 1

oh no scary octopus! first trigger command use standby, second time use pincer attack to stop the nautilus charge. attack with tidus and use grenades and steal when you run out, potion if needed but it isn't needed

continue

in the water at the tropical island

OK HEY SWIM BACK TOWARDS THE CAMERA AND TO THE RIGHT, YOU WILL SEE A CHEST IN A LITTLE AREA TO THE RIGHT THAT HAS THE MOON CREST YOU NEED THIS

continue

before you go into the temple go to the little tent in the northwest and talk to some punks about sin, the back is where the save sphere is in this little town. go into the temple and watch a cutscene, then go to the hut in the middle left of the town and talk to wakka and take a nap to trigger the next cutscene, then go back to the temple

the precepts must be obeyed!
like i care!

ok use a youtube guide or something for this cloister of trials and all subsequent. it is extremely difficult to put into just words how you do these things. they are puzzles and they arent easy. always do the destruction sphere and 100% these you will need it.

continue

hey but what if she like comes on to me?

after the cutscene where you get the blue sword go back into the village-

GO TO THE UPPER LEFT HUT IN THE VILLAGE WHERE THE SAVE SPHERE IS AND GRAB THE AL BHED PRIMER ON THE GROUND

now go to the other hut on the left side and talk to the shop keeper, she tells you about doge. find the doge either in there or somewhere in the village and talk to it,

FOR ME THE DOGE IS IN THE UPPER RIGHT HUT AND YOU GET ENERGY BLAST FOR VALEFOR

continue

omg crazy tiger guy! your hp and mp go back to max after this battle so try not to use potions or anything but at the same time thats what they are for so whatever no one is judging you. but i just cheered turn 1 then kept attacking and was fine

continue, talk to the people at the pier for loot - mainly the priest guy he gives you a ring
continue, ignore O'aka if you want but eventually we are gonna give him 10,002 gil.

NOW GO PAST OAKA TO THE SOUTH AND GO INTO THE POWER ROOM, WHAT KIND OF BACKWATER ISLAND DID YOU COME FROM, GET THE AL BHED PRIMER IN THE SOUTH RIGHT CORNER

ok now if you dont have more than 20 potions (i had 23 at this point) you can go into the cabin by the save sphere and across from the chest with a remedy in it is a suitcase, kick it repeatedly to get potions.

continue

omg scary fin monster! this is easy, wakka, lulu and aeons are the only things that can hit the fin. if you are scared then let one little scalie live so that no more get spawned but you should be fine

oh no a tentacle monster! ok i had to use 2 potions here, its ok if you have to use more. tidus use cheer. wakka use dark attack, after 2 uses wakka hits 0mp, its ok to use a ether on him if you are scared, i didn't though. ignore the little scalies and focus on doing 2k dmg asap

Kilika

watch the sending

wake up and use the save sphere, go to the west of this hut and rescue a little girl, she is sitting and crying in a broken house. go to the hut in the north for a chest. now go south into the next area, GO INTO THE FIRST HUT YOU CAN AND THERE IS A AL-BHED PRIMER ON THE COUNTER grab the chest too.

continue into the woods, equip some people with sensor weapons

oh no scary ochu tentacle monster! ok so this is actually optional because you could go around it but we arent crybabies so lets do this. lulu fire all the time. cure, potion, esuna as needed using the sensor, when ochu hp is 2k or less summon valefor. ochu will use earthquake which flying valefor is immune to. when it goes to sleep use a normal attack to wake it up or it heals hp. then use fire with valefor

continue oh no another tentacle monster! cure and esuna with yuna. focus the tentacles first. once they are dead silence attack with wakka and beat it up.

continue, another temple puzzle! go youtube it. make sure to do the destruction sphere and get the red armlet.

continue, embark on the boat to Luca

Luca

Loan some money to oaka if you can

THE CAPTAIN CABIN THINGY NEAR THE STAIRS HAS A AL-BHED PRIMER

continue to listen to cutscenes, go up the stairs as high as you can repeatedly to listen to more

ok you want to crush those luca goers right? well you should they are mean poopy heads. so go save cuz we are gonna savescum this if you mess up. go examine the blitzball on the deck and do the minigame. if you fail load the save. you need this to win against the goers, the aurochs are really bad. this is the only time you can get jecht shot. Personally i completed it with the analog stick on my controller. screw jecht

ok exit the locker room and go to the left, and go to those locker rooms

BEHIND A PLAYERS FOOT IS AN AL-BHED PRIMER

continue, now yuna is following you, head east then east again, go up the stairs and grab the chest then keep looping around and talk to the 2 crusaders

continue and follow the red arrow oh no machina monster! ok so tidus and kimahri dont do much damage so just make sure lulu can keep thundering, when possibly thunder the crane, once its shaking (3 thunders) have tidus trigger command use crane

save then talk to wakka and lets beat these luca goers! you have no techs until the second half so the first half is just brutal. halftime equip tidus with jecht shot. jecht shot for at least one goal because it doesnt matter if you use up all of tidus' hp because he swaps out for wakka 3 minutes into the second half. then wakka uses venom shot for another goal so hopefully you win 2-0 or 2-1, wakka can even score one more time if you get a nice setup. when you win you get a strength sphere

continue through a lot of story cutscenes and small fights

go south and follow the red arrows but then when you reach this signpost thing

GO NORTH AND FOLLOW THE PATH UNTIL YOU GET TO THIS AUDITORIUM LOOKIN PLACE AND GET THE PRIMER

HIGHROADS

you can play blitzball at save spheres now so go ahead and just do that for about 1000 hours.
ok had enough and want to play the game now then at the end scout your dream team then put 9001 hours into it?

as you travel up the highroad make sure you use yuna to summon valefor a lot and get her overdrive up and ready. on the right before the end of the first area is belgemine. when you find belgemine use valefor and overdrive and blow up her ifrit. use blizzard and shield for the meteor strikes. honestly i used energy blast turn 1 and overkilled her ifrit one shot boiiiiii

RIN GIVES YOU A FREE AL BHED PRIMER NAISU

oh no scary long arm monster! we are going to beat this thing because if we lose we dont get 2 L1 key spheres. So you are gonna hit with lulu fire non stop, keep darkness on it with wakka and hit it hard with everything. when it goes onto its back use overdrives to hit 500 dmg to push it back. we want to actually push it off the other edge, not just kill it. this is honestly pretty hard so if you need to go charge up your overdrives, and if you still cant do it its ok just keep going, you can get more L1 keyspheres at the end of the game - they are farmable

grab a chocobo from the lady outside Rin's place and go north, find yellow chocobo feathers on the ground and use them to make your chocobo jump around and get loot. 2 screens away there is a

AL BHED PRIMER ON THE GROUND

continue to the area with a save sphere. go to the south east part of that area and follow those areas. eventually you will find o'aka, at this point you should have enough gil to lend him 10k or the remaining, you could save it to though because you can get a ring in a couple minutes with it, personally i just gave o'aka money. then continue down that road and you will find a chest with

THE MARS CREST THIS IS IMPORTANT.

continue, whenever you see a mushroom fungus in combat you should focus it first because of its pollen attack

when you get to shelinda she will heal you if you keep talking to her, when you get to the area after shelinda go around this pillar and get

THE AL BHED PRIMER ON THE GROUND

go up the next elevator thingy and go south of the save sphere to hear story about the crusaders with luzzu and gatta

go up the elevator oh no tentacle monster! target the head as much as possible, when it begins to move you must attack it. when the head is about to die use overdrives to finish it. then you take care of the body and arms. the arms protect the body and regenerate so it takes some time. ok so at this point seymour enters the battle and he is OP. this is the only time in the game you can see his overdrive but it takes forever to charge so just youtube it.

you get 3 L1 keyspheres from this boss and at this point in the sphere grid you should be close or able to use them to break into other parts of the grid. I personally suggest having each character continue down their own path. The exceptions are to have Yuna get some black magic, have lulu get some white magic. tidus, auron and wakka should go down their own path because you need hastega on tidus and other abilities for the others. kimahri is a whatever wild card. you can always just grind for slevels if you want.

DJOSE HIGHROAD
after the save sphere there is a pedestrian, talk to them to get a soft ring, equip this one yuna. the basilisks here can actually kill your party if they stone everyone but the ring is stoneproof so have yuna in the party to esuna anyone who needs it.

THERE IS ALSO A AL BHED PRIMER ABOUT HALFWAY DOWN THIS AREA ON THE RIGHT

use kimahri lancet on the basilisks to get stone gaze.

continue "I heard you were quite the crybaby" screw you man i aint no crybaby

continue now you are at the cloister of trials at this lightning temple so go ahead and grab that youtube video, this one is longer than the others.

continue, use ifrit and valefor to charge their overdrives. we are gonna use them to blow up belgemine's ixion. first overdrive with ifrit. then use fire to heal yourself until you can overdrive again. this way you dont help charge ixion's overdrive. i managed to use ifrit's overdrive 3 times before he died, i got lucky though i think. ixion left me with 79 hp and overdrive. so if you only get 2 thats fine bring in valefor and overdrive.

after you win belgemine gives you the summoners soul. if you have been doing any farming at all you might have 90+ of certain spheres like mana spheres. you should probably use some now just so you dont max out. its not like extract abilities are that great but maxing out is useless. i put focus on the three aeons, doubt ill ever use them but eventually we are going to get every single ability because 100% right bois?

continue onto the shoopuf, equip tidus and wakka with lightning strike if you have it

oh no scary underwater kidnap monster! have tidus caste haste, its ok to use hi potions. you can scroll to the right to use your action to equip something with lightning strike if you want. the boss will move up and ready depth charges. if you can do enough damage, about 600, then it comes back down, if not it uses a aoe attack that you might have to potion after, but youll be fine. i didnt use lightning strike or potions, just haste.

continue, on top of this little platform is

A AL BHED PRIMER

you can also buy potions and stuff form o'aka, if you can you should get some because they are dirt cheap from him and you will want them later for customizing weapons. but you can do that at endgame if you want.

over here is a lady named miyu. she is a much MUCH better blitzball goalie than keepa. you should get her if you want to play blitz, because keepa is really bad.

continue, oh wow a al bhed girl that can combine items together to create improvised explosive devices that can blow up fiends... sounds like a terrorist that loves using forbidden machina to me. oh and she steals too? wow. praise be to yevon al bhed scum.

Guado town - scary thunder - ice

ugh look at these disgusting creatures. in the room to the left of the big red doors is a

AL BHED PRIMER ON THE GROUND

continue through the red doors and hear about this sick $%^# asking our pure yuna to marry him disgusting guado pig. Learn about how you dont need love, just determination, hear that? now you are in the lightning plains. dodging lightning is hard for me, eventually you are gonna come back here with a no encounters weapon and dodge 200 but not now. keep trucking along until you get to the travel agency. FIRST TALK TO RIKKU that is what triggers

RIN GIVES YOU A AL BHED PRIMER WHAT A NICE GUY,

when you choose the top option, oh wait he's al bhed scum. now go use the save sphere, then go to the hallway.

continue through the thunder plains. there are no primers here, now you are in the woods.
use kimahri lancet on chimera in macalania woods.

eventually you come across a weird lizardman with a headdress that tells you to catch butterflies. touch the colorful one to activate the mini game. touch the blue ones and dont touch the red ones. you should be able to do this if you are careful. you get an mp sphere in a chest when you complete it. the chest will stay even when the timer goes to 0 so dont worry about that. if you fail go to the next area then back to this one to reset it. now because you beat this one there is another game in the next area. the next one is technically harder but with the practice from the first it goes smoother and you get a ether. its important to do these now because the rewards change after certain events.

continue through the woods until you find o'aka (after barthello). talk to him and go to the buy page then dont buy anything! now he asks if his prices are too high. say they are and he lowers them lol what a fool. to the right of him is a

AL BHED PRIMER ON THE GROUND

oh no sphere monster! ok so this has an element. determine its element by physically attacking it, it will counter attack with whatever element it is. if it uses fire you use blizzard. if it uses thunder you use water. then after you damage it, it will shift so you start over. so basically lulu is gonna be your huge damage dealer this fight. if yuna has spells she can help too.

ok now go back and do the butterfly catching minigames again, the rewards are different now and the time is less. at the end of the game we are going to come back and do this a third time. ok now that you did them both again go back to the save sphere by where o'aka once was.

continue and there is another travel inn place.

THERE IS A AL BHED PRIMER ON THE GROUND HERE

talk to clasko the chocobo crusader guy. tell him he become a chocobo breeder. THIS IS THE CORRECT CHOICE. dont worry about that chest for now.

continue oh no al bhed machina scum! WHY DONT THEY UNDERSTAND THAT THEY ARE THE CAUSE OF SIN THESE SCUMBAGS SHOULD JUST OFF THEMSELVES. use wakka to hit the negator so you can start using spells. buff everyone with cheer and relfex and focus etc. when the negator goes down haste wakka then haste lulu. when you use magic on the big tank it will counterattack with "assault" this attack can bring you to low hp so dont hit it with magic if you are already low. the turn after it says "mana beam in 1 turn" summon an aeon and have it use shield, preferably ixion, then blow it up with lightning damage. it is possible that it will deploy its negator while charging mana beam in which case it negates itself lol

omg rikku you scum heathen barbaric disgusting pig. should have known you were al bhed, you stink like one.

lulu rides sidesaddle like a proper woman.

speak to people to get stuff and there is a lot of loot around here. and omg jyscal says seymour is a bad guy? but but al bhed are the bad guys and yevon are the good guys right? seymour is a maester, he has to be a good guy and everything he says is the truth.

continue into the chamber after looting everything. o'aka is here but he doesnt have anything different. Make me! you freaking half breed guado filth, i cant believe you had the audacity to propose to a pure woman like yuna. Guados aren't even human, they have no temple, they dont deserve rights.

oh no seymour! ok so use tidus, yuna and wakka trigger commands to talk to serymour and tell him he is a douchebag. then have rikku steal from both the guado guardians. then kill both of them. beat on seymour for a while then he summons anima. yuna has a new aeon, summon ???? and make sure to blizzard yourself to heal. overdrive to wreck anima. if you are at full hp and it is your turn and anima is boosting, then boost as well. dont attack it when its boosting. you can overdrive when it is boosting though. after 2 overdrives its donezo. once anima is dead, dismiss ???? otherwise seymour will firaga it. auron magic break, lulu bio if you have it. yuna should have life at this point, she can get one shot by seymour though so if she does phoenix down her asap. yuna cast life and cura every turn. bio poison will kill seymour eventually but this fight gets really tough here. wait a minute its not our fault at all!

cloister of trials time to break out that youtube video. just one thing, at the very end dont step on this glyph, it ruins the path and you have to do some stuff over again, i did like more than once and got triggered so dont touch it at the end. you have to touch it for the destruction sphere stuff.

running - desert - flying

after o'aka, use the save sphere then start running. if the guado catch you you fight. they summon fiends. curious how they summon fiends eh? evil scum. steal from the guado, so they cant auto potion, then kill them. once outside, stay on the right side to find this chest,

then keep running.

oh no scary beast man! first step use a aeon overdrive to kill the 2 guado, or use some other aoe overdrive like auron or rikku. use threaten on it if it has berserk on it. darkness is good and power break is good. use fire spells and beat it up. i just used dark attack whenever needed and when it missed then i used power break. easy.

continue, now you are under the temple, talk to everyone, then there is a chest behind kimahri and behind auron, then talk to everyone again.

continue, now you are in the desert, a big scary monster attacks tidus all alone, if you haste and slow it and delay attack it never gets more than one turn and your buddies show up to help you, hi potion if people get hit hard. bio works really well. its not immune to demi but demi costs a lot of mp, its only slightly scary because you have no healer

continue and find wakka and kimahri and rikku if you run into a big giant worm with a mouth with 45k hp choose to flee! oh wow rikku you al bhed scum you mean to tell me that you live in the desert and have a secret hideout we cant tell anyone about? and you probably plan out what to do with forbidden machina and blow things up wow sounds like something else i know in the real world. use hi potions and have rikku use al bhed potions as needed to get through these fights, even eye drops for darkness.

continue and you get to a save sphere, north of that

IS A AL BHED PRIMER

. if you go west of the save sphere there are 3 chests in that area and north of those

IS ANOTHER AL BHED PRIMER WOWZA

now go up into the next area. there are chests here that are in little quicksand pit thingies. one of these chests,

center left on the minimap has the mercury crest in it and you need to get this.

these sandragora quicksand thingies are really annoying. you can steal 2 remedies from them so dont feel bad about using at least 2 for when people get confused. you can easily wipe if all 3 characters get confused and hit each other and themselves. i even used overdrives thats how bad these things are.

whoa what the heck a terrorist attack on the terrorists? is that even possible? whats going on here who are the good guys, al bhed are scummy forbidden machina users that basically created sin, guado are not human sub tier species trash, and yevon are a bunch of crazies, man i just wanna play some blitzball

to the left of the save sphere

IS A AL BHED PRIMER ON THE GROUND

this dead body has 2 hi potions, he wont be needing them anymore. lets start this war on terror, these people cant just go around blowing up towers. when fighting, focus on the guado first because they buff the fiends why and how do they side with and control fiends? they dont have auto potion so you dont have to steal from them but you might as well because loot.

continue into the next area and you end up on some stairs, go back to and into the room on the left to

FIND AN AL BHED PRIMER ON THE BED

grab the chest with the friend sphere and if you are a powergamer then get an elixir from the other one, that is the rarest item in there. otherwise a mega potion is good because it heals the entire party but right now al bhed potions heal the entire party for less but its fine.

continue to the area with the save sphere. in the 2 o'clock path in the upper right

IS A AL BHED PRIMER ON THE GROUND

then enter the room with blue lights to the right. yes you are a al bhed, brother is the son, they live on bikanel island, and al bhed in al bhed is al bhed so these al bhed who i thought i hated have a "summoners sanctum"? why would they need to keep summoners safe if they are the bad guys? i mean, they must still be bad right, they literally create sin with all their sinning and machine usage right? continue and make sure to get this level 4 key sphere over here!

continue big spoilers here so yuna has to sacrifice herself to stop sin just like jesus and hang on the al bhed blow up their own home, you know who else blows up everything even their own country land? terrorists.

sign brother, he is really good, he is going to be your new center because he has high pass, block and shoot. eventually we will get wakka for our other forward alongside tidus.

continue to explore the airship and talk to people, the al bhed psyches are here and it would be nice to assassinate nimrook really quick or break his ankles but you cant. you can find dona here and she is all depressed if you choose "sure!" then endgame she is at djose temple and she gave up her pilgrimage, if you choose "who cares?" then she shows up in zanarkand when you try to get another aeon neither of these options get you items or anything at all related to game completion "But we say "lose something precious, find something even more precious"." sounds like something a terrorist with a martyr complex would say to me...

continue back to the bridge of the ship. oh uh yuna is Cid's niece and Cid is a al bhed so uh yuna is uh uh crap. whatever lets crash this wedding i hate seymour more than the al bhed he is scum and should be dead we killed him whats going on.

oh no big scary flying beast! tidus slow it, tidus haste everyone, when you see that tidus or rikku gets a turn before cid thats when you use trigger command, then cid can blast it and you dont get hit by the poison breath. you will know when it will use poison breath because it uses it's turn to inhale. it takes half damage from elemental spells so that sucks for lulu. when its close use your melee people and when its far use your ranged people. its totally fine to burn al bhed potions because thats basically how you heal without yuna.

continue to crash the wedding

continue your escape wow machina everywhere man what the heck yevon, go down the spiral stairs and through the next machina gate and there

IS A AL BHED PRIMER ON THE GROUND

cloister of trials time, load up that youtube video. this one is even longer and more complex than the others, it has 2 awesome items in it though.

continue, um did we seriously just get arrested? we are the good guys! we are trying to stop sin! its everyone else that is are liars, terrorists and hypocrites!

Prison - Calm lands - Gagazet

continue, now learn the truth about yevon. so uhhhhh yevon is definately worse than the al bhed terrorists and the guado scum. so where does that leave us? we are just vigilante renegade nomads now? we are literally homeless monks on a pilgrimage basically, this doesn't feel like heroes

now you are all alone as yuna, summon aeons every fight and you'll be fine lmao, your new aeon bahamut has impulse which wrecks everything. get its overdrive ready as well as your other aeons. there are lots of chests in this area, almost all of which are worth getting so just take your time and explore the place until you get black magic, and white magic spheres, there are chests behind a locked door in the upper left on the map, dont worry about it for now. you have to go to the south west where you find an elixir and activate the glyph. then go to the center of the map where you find the black magic sphere in a chest and activate that glyph then head to the upper left and activate the glyph

uh oh Isaaru the summoner! you want to fight you punk? you are going to uphold an unjust law? disgusting. and you think you can solo us without your guardians? blow up his ifrit with bahamut blizzara and overdrive. your next 2 aeons are going to be ixion and shiva because they can heal themselves with their black magic. if you had charged your aeon overdrives while being yuna alone then that makes this a little easier. his third aeon is bahamut and it starts a countdown. shield when it reaches 1 because it does a ton of damage. i just used shiva basic attack and shielded and slowly chipped away at it.

continue oh no evrae zombie form! ok so this is spoilered because there are 2 ways to fight this thing, one way is cheesy but its the way you should do because you get extra loot. the non cheesy way is to use the trigger commands to bust open the gates and then flee through them and trap evrae in the last area. the cheesy way is to just use phoenix downs on it twice and its dead... do it this way and you can find 2 chests after the fight with an avenger and a rematch

continue oh wow kinoc, i dont feel sorry for you , you shoved a gun in my face. "your'e totally nuts!" kimahri a BAMF use this bridge to charge up everyone's overdrives and the aeons overdrives. seymour is at the end and its a fight.

oh no crazy man! have tidus, yuna and auron use their trigger commands. then bio him. then cast reflect on him, dont cast any more spells on him, if you dont have relfect thats fine. use all the overdrives including aeons.

continue south and past kimahri to watch arguably the most important and iconic custscene in the game. later after the group leaves go back to the camp for a chest, then

go back and to the left then down and left to find another jecht's sphere.

continue and eventually you get to a save sphere in the center of the calm lands, yay blitzball! to the southwest of the save sphere area is belgemine again. before fighting make sure you have space for 30 power spheres because thats what you get when you win. she uses her shiva so just summon ifrit and you win easily by healing and attacking.

far upper left has

A AL BHED PRIMER ON THE GROUND

go to the lady on the chocobo and say you want to ride one. you have to do some training courses but its worth it and you get loot too. we will save the extra training courses for end game. also with the chocobo we can go to remiem temple, to get there go back to the entrance to the calm lands and use the chocobo feather while riding a chocobo

AND GET A AL BHED PRIMER

and battle belgemine a bunch of times but we are gonna save that for endgame as well. also you can do chocobo racing here to get the cloudy mirror which we need for ultimate weapons but we are going to save that for endgame as well.

go to the right center of the area and find the monster arena, tell him you will help and you can purchase weapons with capture. you have to actually killing blow with the weapon so its really only useful for kimahri, tidus, wakka, and auron for now, but you should get them because you will want them for endgame, you maybe shouldn't equip them right now because gagazet and calm lands monsters can be difficult and you want everything on your side, at endgame you can come back and wreck everything.

i would suggest spending a little bit of time here just grinding sphere levels for people, if your lulu spells arent one shotting the magic enemies they are supposed to then grind, same goes for everyone else, if they aren't one shotting the enemy type they are built for then grind.

continue to the upper right and on to mt gagazet. oh no big scary robot! hastega, armor break, mental break, lulu firaga, aeon overdrives but only if they have them ready because this robot will wreck them. steal a lunar curtain, all of your characters overdrives except wakka element reels will do damage.

so after the battle go down under the bridge via the path to the right, go to the right and get the rusty sword, we will want this for endgame. down here is also the cavern of the stolen fayth but lets save that for later.

continue up the mountain oh no ronso fight! ok really your goal here is to lancet everything you can from these guys. you can literally get all of kimahri's overdrives except one from these guys. there are 2 that are trickier, white wind and mighty guard. they have to be near death to use these and after they use it then you can lancet it. dont worry too much if you miss some because there are monsters that you can lancet at endgame that have them. if you have steal then do it, they have multiple L3 keyspheres each.

as you climb gagazet charge your overdrives and aeons overdrives, take this north path when you get here in the first area, it leads to braska's sphere and we need that. the monsters, especially the bombs are difficult, you might need to flee or summon aeons.

continue and you find wantz, oa'ka brother. this guy has some really good weapons but they cost a lot. you probably have about 200k right now. and honestly the booster cactuar is really good. magic booster makes your spells cost more mp and do more damage. he also sells rikku survivor which has alchemy which doubles healing items so her al bhed potions will do 2k. the weapons with multiple elemental strikes are actually less good than they seem, often times you run into a creature that absorbs one or something and it renders it ineffective.

continue past him and there is a lvl 4 key sphere and a hp sphere in this little area. continue and save at the save sphere. oh no seymour again! this is a hard fight. lulu bio, tidus hastega, steal an elixir, wakka silence attack/buster, when he zombies a character, swap them out esuna doesnt work. if he casts reflect or protect on himself dispel it asap. i used a bunch of remedies for the zombie effect, i had wakka silence buster basically every turn. i even had to ether him.

gagazet - zanarkand - airship

DONT MISS THIS SATURN CREST AFTER DEFEATING SEYMOUR OMG

continue and get weirded out by the fathy dream thing. i dont even know whats going on anymore. continue through the mountain and do the puzzles to unlock paths then go through those paths and do more puzzles. tidus haste the party if you want, dont equip the brotherhood because waterstrike. rikku can use grenades to deal damage because her attack doesnt do anything, have her use al bhed potions as needed. if you have rikku alchemy then its actually better to use hi potions during combat instead of between encounters because it will heal more, thats moot though if you only need 1k hp. after you do the second puzzle where you send the 3 people into colored circles, go back to the first save sphere. if you go up and to the right there is loot and if you go left and right into that little area there is loot. then continue.

equip your people with stuff that blocks status ailments, mainly sleep silence darkness confusion, make sure yuna can cast esuna. oh no big dragon crazy thing! lulu bio, tidus hastega, after it loses 50% hp it casts curaga on itself, make sure you cast reflect on it then stop casting spells on it.

continue on through zanarkand and do the cloister of trials, there is actually not an opportunity to get or use the destruction sphere here so feel free to not watch a youtube video and try it out for yourself first, if you give up then go watch a video.

ok save at the save sphere and equip berserk ward / proof stuff. oh no scary blade spirit thingy! if you attack with a physical attack it will counterattack that person. this is inevitable so just cast protect on like auron tidus and wakka, hastega obviously. you also want all your characters one platform away from each other with a empty one in between. the only thing you can do to it is mental break which is good for casting attack magic on it. if it puts a mine on your platform then move.

ok put dark ward stuff on your melee and put silence ward stuff on your magic users. oh no yunalesca! ok so has her first form, then her final form, then her true final form. anime level right here. first is easy dont do burn your overdrives if you have any. put reflect on all your people. second form she zombies some of your characters, swap them out and keep them zombied. final form, haste and protect on everyone, you need 1 but preferably 2 zombie characters on the fight all the time. dispel will get rid of regen on a zombie without taking away zombie. NEVER LET HER HAVE A TURN WHEN YOU HAVE NO ZOMBIES THATS HOW YOU GET GAME OVER.

after beating her go

DOWN THE STAIRS BEHIND HER AND GO HERE AND GET THE SUN CREST

Side Quests - The actual beginning of the game

talk to people until you have full control of the airship and can go places. ok so first recruit wakka for blitzball. while on this airship for the first time lets also do the secret airship coordinates. Choose search and here are the places we are going, these are not exact, you have to kind of move the cursor around that area so basically +/-2:

X	Y
Baaj Temple	13,60
Sanubia Desert	14,43
Besaid Falls	30,74
Mi'hen Ruins	35,57
Some place	41,58
Omega Ruins	72,35

ok another thing i need to mention. there are summoner assassins in the world now. they will absolutely destroy you if you talk to them. if you see a new character in a map and you dont remember them being there they are probably an assassin. these guys are hard, like we are going to do them last hard.

ok so basically leave baaj and omega ruins alone for now, the other 4 have free items so lets grab those. next we will do the airship passwords, this is more free loot. select input this time and the three passwords are GODHAND VICTORIOUS MURASAME. godhand goes to mushroom rock and actually wont open yet until we do some other stuff.

another objective is getting gear with "no encounters" on it, that way we can run around and not worry about random encounters. to do this we are going to go to omega ruins and grind until something drops it. no one will know if you decide to use F3 instead of doing this...

getting legendary weapons. first go to the calm lands, go to remiem temple by using a chocobo and using the feather. go to the right of the temple and ride the chocobo, win the race. you obtain the cloudy mirror. now go to macalania woods. go to the beginning area and talk to the lady and child there, she says her husband is missing. go back to the campsite where you guys stayed when you were here (to the right of the lady then east, then north) talk to the man there and tell them they were back there. head back there as well and talk to them to find out the son is missing now. go up that rainbow crystal cloudy ghost path. go up to the kid, north, and use the cloudy mirror. now its the celestial mirror. now you can open that GODHAND chest as well as other chests containing legendary weapons. then you get the sigil and the crest and you come back to this spot to unlock the weapon's full abilities. i suggest doing this sooner rather than later because most of the weapons have double AP which will allow you to complete the grid and get stronger faster.

getting the mercury sigil: go to sanubia, basically there is this big sandstorm that blocks this path and the goal is to clear it. go to the south of the sandstorm area here to this cactuar rock: use the clues to find 10 cactuar, play a game with them that is kind of tricky sometimes, then get their sphere and return it to the weird cactuar rock. and then the sandstorm goes away and you can enter the village. do not worry about actually doing the game right, you get the mercury sigil no matter what, but if you manage to do it right everytime except 1 you get a friend sphere.

getting the saturn sigil: go to macalania woods and do the 2 butterfly puzzles again.
getting kimahri weapon: go to thunder plains and activate 3 of the glowing cactuar rocks. one is tucked away in the southern area on the right hand side and hard to find. then a little cactuar ghost appears in the southern part of the thunder plains and guides you to a broken tower. pray at the broken tower and you get it.
tidus weapon: go to the calm lands and talk to the lady on the chocobo right outside the camp area. tell her you want to train. unlock racing her by completing the others. win with a time of 0:00 or lower. this basically means get a ton of balloons and dont get hit by birds. this is super hard for me so if it is for you then heres what you do. do it 10 times. then take a break and play blitzball tournament to try and get more reels for wakka. then go to thunder plains and try to dodge 200 lightning in a row, which is also really hard for me, then go do chocobo another 10 times and repeat. hopefully this way you wont try to kill yourself.

monster arena: equip your capture weapons and go back to besaid. start here and go all the way back through the entire game and capture everything. then do it again and capture 10 of everything. you having fun yet? you are going to end up with lots of power spheres etc from doing this so make sure to use them to power up your aeons. the thing with this is that you preferably want to be higher level because you get a free chance to fight stuff when you go back to the monster arena and you want to be able to actually kill it. the stuff he creates are insane. as you go monster catching, grab the jecht sphere in the the southern thunder plains, its hard to miss.

getting yojimbo: first lets make sure you have 615k gil. you can do this with 205k but lets triple it. go to the calm lands and exit through the northeast like you are going to mt gagazet. this time go to the right and under the bridge. this is the place where we got the rusty sword already. this time go into the cavern. its called the cavern of the stolen fayth and you need to capture the fiends in here at some point. there are lots of chests around this place, some of which you have to use teleport pads to go left and right to "???". if you run into a magic urn just flee. THERE IS ALSO A AL BHED PRIMER TO THE LEFT OF THE SAVE SPHERE. fight the summoner. use magic, should be pretty easy. eventually you have to negotiate a price for the aeon. first say "to defeat the most powerful of enemies". first bid: offer his asking +1gil. second bid: raise your bid by +1gil. eventually he proposes 205k. at this point offer him 615k and you get 2 teleport spheres and the aeon. you could just do 205k but teleport spheres are nice.
go back to zanarkand and do the destruction sphere: use the airship to go back to zanarkand ruins. go through the map and use the teleport pad to skip some stuff. see dona if you told her to continue questing earlier and there is a little cutscene. now do the puzzle activate all the white squares in both rooms then put the destruction sphere into the slot to the right of the monitor
getting anima: get stoneproof and deathproof gear for rikku, wakka, and tidus. its ok if you cant get it for all of them. go to baaj temple. kill geosgaeno. immediately after killing him go south to find lulu legendary weapon. go into the fayth and activate each orb to get the aeon. i actually did this without stoneproof and deathproof gear.
getting the magus sisters: go to mt gagazet and capture one of each monster. go to the monster arena and get the blossom crown. go to the calm lands, grab a chocobo, go to remiem temple. beat belgemines bahamut to get the flower sceptre. use these 2 items to get the magus sisters in the room behind belgemine. now beat her yojimbo and anima and magus sisters too. Sandy is HOT send belgemine and get the moon sigil

Side quests continue - the actual middle of the game

get mars sigil from monster arena after completing 10 quests for the guy. just catch a bunch of stuff and you get it eventually.
get auron weapon: go to djose highroad and go left. then keep going until you see this little alcove to the north of the main path. there is a elevator that goes up to a statue where you use the rusty sword to make a glyph appear. touch the glyph and go to the chest.

Sin

go to the highbridge and talk to mika

go to sin and oh no you fight it's fins! this is super easy if you did any of the side quests and maybe have some celestial weapons.
oh no you fight sin and a sinspawn! kill the sinspawn first, silence it if it starts healing. now you fight sin, overdrive, al bhed potion, armor break and you are chill
oh no big huge sin! get some stoneproof armor, hastega and overdrives. if it gets its overdrive you lose but you'll be fine.

ok we are inside sin, there are monsters here this is weird. go through this weird sea with fayth symbols everywhere. there are 5 chests in this first area. behemoth kings are hard, on death they hit everyone for like 6k~ so watch out. you eventually need to catch everything in here so if you catch then it doesnt do the on death trigger attack. demonoliths can stone your party turn 1. great malboros can confuse your party turn 1. barbatos and adamantoise just armor break and beat on them.

oh what the heck seymour! isnt this guy dead already or something? lets kill him again. so he has 4 spinning discs behind him. he has the element of whatever color on each disc is closest to him. if they are all the same then he is weak to the opposite and he also casts 4 spells a turn. each spell he casts is whatever the 4 colors are that are closest to him on the discs. personally i mixed up all his colors then just blew him up. hastega, overdrives, at one point he casts ultima, you want high hp people on the field or an aeon to sacrifice.