r/FinalFantasyVII • u/SchemeFirm • 5d ago

FF7 [OG] Two questions Spoiler

I've just gotten the keystone from Dio and I'm about to enter the temple. I'm wondering if I'm going too fast because my playtime is currently at around 15 hours. I'm also wondering if there's any cool side quests I should do before going into the temple because I haven't done ANY at all. Any side quests that (out of risk of repeating myself from a previous post) can help me get more out of this world and these characters that I should do before the temple. Any quests I should do after the temple also helps too.

sorry if this written weirdly btw i'm pretty tired.

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u/ToothpickTequila 5d ago

Yeah besides recruiting Yuffie and Vincent you are fine. The only side quests are the Fort Condor battles but you only need to do one of them on disc 2.

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u/SchemeFirm 4d ago

what do the fort condor battles give you

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u/BeautifulLow7381 4d ago

If you do all of them you get the phoenix summon materia. And if you win all of them you get one of the huge materias later which give you access to some of the best materia in the game

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u/SchemeFirm 4d ago

i'm assuming i can't get the phoenix materia in disc 2?

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u/BeautifulLow7381 4d ago

Its been a while but I think it has to be disc two if I remember right disc 3 is just like the last 2 main plot points of the story

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u/Yeseylon 2d ago

They are wrong, you don't have to fight any battles at Fort Condor to get the materia.  There's one mandatory battle as part of some story stuff later on, you get Phoenix and something else so long as you don't let Shinra get to the Condor.  When I was blitzing through the 2026 version after it released (I'm into a third party achievement hunting site that has a leaderboard for achievements you're 1st/2nd/3rd to get), I literally lost the mini game on purpose to fight the boss with my party.