GUYS! Stop giving him so many tips.

A game is easier with some tips, but leave some stuff to his imagination will ya.

Oh, but here's one thing I never would have learned without someone explaining it to me.

Elemental and Added Effect materia are awesome. Elemental adds the element of the linked materia to your weapon and defends you against that element when equipped in armor. Added Effect is the same thing, except it's with status effects, not elements.

Well, there are a couple of things almost nigh impossible to find out about in FFVII without any kind of back up or tips. I missed a lot, and I really mean a lot, of stuff during my first playthrough on it, because I played it without any kind of guides or help.

E.Skills are a prime example of easy-to-miss things, especially since most of them require specific conditions or having to guess which enemies can be manipulated. The ones that I got at first were by sheer chance, and it was barely 1/5 of the total.

Added Effect - Hades = Best Status Prevention combo XD

Shhhhhh! Don't tell him.

...oh and yes it is. Safer was raping me with Supernova, so I decided to give that to Yuffie so she was protected against that stupid confusion.

And I couldn't bother with trying to Morph a stupid Tonberry.

I also just bought Kingdom Hearts 2 and Dragon Quest 8 with demo included so now I have three playstation games I must complete

You mean the Master Tonberries right? Those are the ones that can be morphed into Ribbons. 

I did Morph one....it was annoying as hell, cost me a few Life2 and I had to pray to get the numbers of his HP correctly , so it's really not worth it >_>

Oh, Kingdom Hearts 2 is awesome. Awesome game. Really awesome.

And in Cosmo Canyon, I believe you can buy HP and MP Plus materia. Get them. Get a lot of them. I played my first playthrough without any of them because I missed the store and I didn't buy any until right before the last fucking dungeon.

And I actually tried to do the entire dungeon without any of those materia either before being brutally slaughtered by the final boss.