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FF7 Rebirth Chapter 9 Walkthrough SPOILER FREE, ONLY IMPORTANT NOTES

Walkthrough for Chapter 9 of FF7 Rebirth. NO SPOILERS, only IMPORTANT NOTES and "Missable" Items. Get good in Gongaga!

Get good time in Chapter 9! This is my straight to the point, NO BS Walkthrough for Chapter 9 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 9 Walkthrough: Pre-notes

It's a relatively short chapter! Which is a welcome break from the previous one...

Reminder: Cait Sith joins your party after, and with him comes the all-important MAGNIFY MATERIA, which turns linked materia into "target all".

It's also around this time you can do Corel World Intel Completion as a whole. Backtrack if you wish to do so.

South - Far South

Run-down Reactor

Jungles of Gongaga

Gongaga World Intel is unlocked straight away! Don't go ham exploring - but take some towers along the way. Don't worry I'll remind you).

You can buy 4 materia slot armlets here (Outlaw Bangle, and Crocodile Bangle) You can buy one or two each, but you'll get a pair on sale a little bit down the line. Pretty worth it if you wanna level up lots of materia.

Subversion Materia and Disempowerment Materia are available to buy now from the vending machine. First time seeing these. You'll get a Subversion a little later so you can hold off buying that.

Done? HEAD TOWARDS TOWER 1 - then straight to the village (your objective).

The GYC's Captain

The Village of Gongaga

Aerith's Acquaintances

Recuperation and Confusion

Talk to your party members for relationship boost. Red near the Memorial. Tifa beside the piano house. Barrest WEST of town. Light blue markers on your map. Yuffie in the Inn. Cait is BEHIND the memorial (but no boost) Aerith is part of the quest. Rest at Cissnei's house when you're done.

Anytime you're in Gongaga, you can get Red Megaphone (Cait Sith Weapon). There's a small cave at the southern tip of the “river' beside the item shop. Get into the water using the various paths down to the waterway north of this area.

Mysterious Roar

Shadows over the Reactor

Cry of the Planet

Yuffie Weapon, Bird of Prey in the Purple Chest right as you get out of bed! It's boys only for now. Cloud, Barret, Red, and Cait. Setup Materia properly as it's a long journey.

Road to the Reactor

You'll pass by Tower 2 on the way - might as well get it. Fiend 2 as well. To get to the Generator, there's many paths. From Fiend 2, go down a rope to the south. Should be clear from there. You ultimately access it from the water.

The Shadows Beckon

In the upper sections, before you first cram in between two walls, the other path is a room with purple chest Crystal Sword (Cloud Weapon).

Gate Generator

In the Coolant Room, swim to the right and climb up a ramp looking thing for Sage's Armband.

Water Level

Restoring Power

Guided by Whispers

The purple chest “on the other side” is a Golden Collar (Red XIII Weapon). You gain access to this area when you pull the thing all the way back (so you can climb up), in the 2nd generator room where you plug the control panel.

Resting Point. Crocodile Armband on Sale! Make sure you're packing Fire Materia, and Ice Materia.

Clash

Boss: Specimen H1024

Weak to Ice. Save up some ATB to burst him down after Mako Ingestion. Item Economizer, and Magnify + Heal help here as he can do considerable burst damage in Phase 2.

Crisis

Race to the Reactor

Grappling Gun

Rescue Effort

It's the girls turn. It's worth tryharding the Materia as you'll use 'em for a while. Chocobo's for Gongaga are unlocked here. You have to re-enter the reactor (now flooded), even if it seems like you're gonna grapple up. Before you enter, there is a grapple point out here that has a 10x Exquisite Beast Hide chest.

Gate Generator

In the room with Chimera Mimics, there's a grapple that leads to a Purple Chest with Tiger Fangs (Tifa Weapon). Grapple South to get it.

Boss: Crimson Mare Mk. II

Weak to Lightning. Kill arms to expose Scarlet. Damage Scarlet to pressure the mech. Couple cycles of this. Hope you like air fights…Yuffie Lightning Ninjutsu helps a lot. As for the final phase (the drill arms), the arms are RESISTANT to magic, but very weak to physical.

Magnus Materia

Out of the Frying Pan

Where She Belongs

State of Things

Freeflier Pilot

Road to the Airstrip

While you CAN do Gongaga World Intel, just hold off just a little more... Head to the Airstrip first. Get Tower X along the way!

Telephone Booth

Price of the Flight

There's a Resounding Megaphone (Cait Sith Weapon) in the bushes left of the Gongaga Airstrip map marker. Somewhat stealthy...

Once you pay up, it's off to “Chapter 10” - but don't worry you can return at ANY TIME. You can literally go to the next Chapter and return in less than 5 minutes.

Finally, here's where I recommend you do Gongaga World Intel at this point! Careful what you wish for. As you know, the map is a little difficult to traverse. But,

Chapter 9 Walkthrough: Closing notes

Chapter 9 is short and sweet. There's some very cool story beats here. Now, Gongaga World Intel CAN MAKE YOU PULL YOUR HAIR OUT. Thankfully, the scenery and BGM are lit.