FF7 Rebirth Chapter 13 Walkthrough SPOILER FREE, ONLY IMPORTANT NOTES

Walkthrough for Chapter 13 of FF7 Rebirth. NO SPOILERS, only IMPORTANT NOTES and "Missable" Items.

Getting through Chapter 13! This is my straight to the point, NO BS Walkthrough for Chapter 13 of FF7 Rebirth. Here, you will expect:

Only important notes. If a segment is blank, means there's nothing relevant to say.
SPOILER FREE. Any potential spoilers will be blurred. Click to Reveal.
Important of "missable" items will be noted to the best of my ability.
Time saving or important reminders that are pretty impactful.
No useless pictures I'll only add really important ones if any.
Use CTRL+F to search or scroll to the Main Scenario quest name you need help on.

Chapter 13 Walkthrough: Pre-notes

First of all, and most importantly FAST TRAVEL TO ANYWHERE is now possible - and I mean anywhere even in other regions.

You will SWITCH MULTIPLE TIMES BETWEEN TWO PARTIES:
Aerith, Red, Yuffe OR Cloud, Barret, Tifa
Try to setup your Materia to be "as easy to shift" as possible...

There's a lot of newly unlocked sidequests and many minigames are updated. It's admittedly a bit overwhelming. It's at this point I can recommend you to "skip" these for now and continue with the story. It varies from person to person, but if there is a time to do this - it's now. Many of these things are "fluff" anyway, and you can come back to it later.

Northern Voyage

Head north on the Bronco (follow the blue marker). For a little while I thought I had to head East, because that’s where it looked like the new island would be, haha. Just keep going north, and you’ll eventually see a landing spot.

Ancient Awakening

The Materia Beckons

Into the Labyrinth

One Step Ahead

» Red Chamber (Labyrinth Ceiling)

There's a Slipstream Saber (Cloud Weapon) Purple Chest after double flying Ancient Dragon.

Confused? Climb the grass near this purple chest and move left! There’s a Mythril Ore if you attack these crystals on the other side.

» Red (Labyrinth Floor) - nothing notable keep going.

» Blue Chamber (Labyrinth Ceiling) - For the Blue Chamber you got 3 options. The “floor” where you came from. The “wall”, and the “Ceiling”. The Ceiling only has Whistlewind Scarf Chest.

» Blue Chamber (Labyrinth Wall) - Push the “Ball in the Box” to the plants at the South and climb up.

Chasing Waterfalls

Got many options here. Get the treasure first at Purple Floor, and Yellow Floor.

» Purple (Labyrinth Floor) - Eventually leads to a Cetran Bangle.

» Yellow (Labyrinth Floor) - EXP Up materia at the end here.

» Purple (Labyrinth Ceiling) - This is where you go to progress. There's a resting point here and a boss up next.

Boss: Red Dragon

Hide behind pillars to block Fire Breathing (making them fall to him is a weird process???). Target the chest ASAP whenever it’s targetable. When it’s flying, destroy the wings.

Hall of Life

Divergent Paths

Resting Point - forced to use Cloud, Barret, and Tifa. Purple Chest with Jarngreipr (Tifa Weapon) in corridor of Currents before you first go downstairs.

Lifestorm

Ambush

Keep Trying

Vessel of Life

Forced to use Yuffie, Red, and Aerith

Stand on the red platform and look around for the vessels to receive your energy. You can only do this from red platforms. Breaking green crystals and defeating enemies drops “energy”. Press triangle to absorb the energy.

Filling up the vessels while standing on red platforms stabilizes the surrounding landscape allowing you to proceed.

Mercy's Vessels

This area has 2 vessels. Fill these up and go downstairs on the west.

Order's Vessels

After going down the stairs to the west, and there’s a Purple chest with Gambanteinn (Aerith Weapon) In that Pyramid thing there’s various motes you can absorb. There’s initially 4 vessels to fill here

West Vessel: Minor treasure, and more energy to absorb

South/West Vessel: Unlocks a new vessel to channel onto (way to progress). Steadfast Block ***.

South/East Vessel: NEEDS A FAT AMOUNT. Cetran Armband (large defensive stats, no materia slots lol).

East Vessel: Minor treasure, and more energy to absorb.

North: When you’re done, channel on the North Vessel to proceed (the "new" one you just unlocked).

Forging Ahead

Turk Trackers

A Way Across

Crossing the Rapids

Resting Point, back to Cloud, Tifa, Barret. Head north first, there’s a purple chest with Battle Cry (Barret Weapon)

There's a couple boss encounters coming up!

The Looming Monument

Boss: Ironclad

Make sure you have some Revives on hand! Supposedly you need to Pressure the boss at least once to topple the tower, but I imagine defeating it straight up does the same. His "supermove" can be difficult to interrupt so if you fail to dodge it just ressurect.

Cross the Fallen Tower

Boss: Reno and Rude

Target Redhair first, bait his counterattack and EVADE it - will cause a Pressure. You already know what to do with baldy.

The Hunt Begins Anew

Practice Makes Perfect

Back to Aerith, Red, and Yuffie.

Interference

Further Interference

Try, Try Again

Boss: Elena and Tseng

Elena first - the usual. Synergy Skills and Abilities. As for Tseng... didn't really seem notable. I even forgot what his special mechanic was. (Lemme check).

huge chunk of story

In His Footsteps

Hall of Resurrection

A Grave Injury

An Ancient’s Purview

To Each Their Trial

The Trial of Red XIII

The Trial of Tifa

The Trial of Yuffie

The Trial of Barret

The Trial of Aerith

Corridor of Effigies

The Trial of Cloud