This Final Fantasy VII Remake Hard Difficulty Guide will provide you with tips, tricks and best character builds for hard mode.

After completing the game and watching the credits, you'll load to your Main Menu where the game will explain some of the new features available to you.

It may not seem like much, but a Curaga now costs 9MP instead of 12MP. On two characters, this means you can run in and immediately use their abilities. However, this is only on one weapon per character.For Tifa, use Sonic Strikers, for Barret use Light Machine Gun, for Aerith use Reinforced Staff. There’s a Enemy Skill can be a good way to recover MP, especially when combined with HP or MP-Absorb.but i remember enemy skill doesn’t link with MP-absorb no? Of course, this depends on the natural MP regeneration rate + the boost provided by your weapon.while this is not an optimal strategy to regain MP, it is viable in situations where you can reliably kite for awhile with minimal chances for damage. Just reading the enhancements over, Reinforced Staff looks like a defensive weapon more then anything while Silver Staff looks like an above average damage staff with the highest MP regen in game;The 11 MATT doesn’t seem to be worth it over stuff like that. I got all the useful skills I want and weapon level 6 on all characters without doing quests on hard. Thanks for using PowerPyx as your go-to for guides! I have auto-life earings on, using magnify + curaga, and relying on aerith’s ray of judgment even though it doesn’t seem to do much here…. While playing in Hard Mode: You must beat the game on hard for the Hardened Veteran trophy. It is worth noting that by earning Weapon Level 6 from playing the game on Hard difficulty, you can acquire a weapon ability called “Reprieve” which will allow you to survive a move which would have otherwise killed you, giving you a moment to heal if you’re lucky. The best ability by far is Reprieve, which means your character will be left with 1HP from an attack that would have killed them. just wanted to let people know about this.Can someone tell me if Aerith’s magical range attacks are considered magic or attack? in the game.In those situations use the Elemental Materia on your 2 main chars.For a boss where you use ranged attacks with Aerith a lot, I would put Elemental on Cloud and Aerith.Basically whoever is the most useful for an upcoming fight should get the best loadout you can put together.You have Tifa/Barret under the same setup.

It sometimes feels like it’s better to use other weapons for some of them, like Aerith.Personal preference really. So this makes it really fast and easy.Also with chapter select you get even more AP. Just play through on hard and you get all the rest as long as you do all side quests.Not true… you can also miss 2 in chapter 9. Once Staggered, use Tifa’s Finally, since you’ll be using Cloud as your Leader for the vast majority of the game, learn the value in blocking. Final Fantasy VII Remake Hard Mode Isn't Just New Game+. You must beat the game on hard for the Hardened Veteran trophy.Hard difficulty is unlocked after you complete the game once on any difficulty. It can only be used once per battle, but it will save you countless times and buy you enough time to use a Cure spell.The next best ability is a 20% MP reduction for Cure spells. I highly recommend having this for all hard combat sim fights and for this reason I didn’t attempt these until I had actually reached Chapter 17 in my hard mode playthrough. So certain materia will not be available at certain points due to Tifa/Aerith being together at one point.Yes sorry that’s a mistake on my part. But I would suggest doing Chapter 14 col and watch some series nearby.Me personally I ran the garage section of chapter 16 over and over again. I used whichever ones had Reprieve or 20% Cure as they were more important. Before starting Hard, try to get your HP Up, Magic Up and MP Up materia to at least level 3. I‘m kinda missing it in the great Loadout description !Since you say that “For hard it’s good to pick a weapon that has the upgrades “Reprieve” (makes you survive a deathblow with 1HP) and “Healing Spells MP Cost Reduction 20%” (you have more heals because they cost less).” wouldn’t Aerith’s best weapon be the Silver Staff instead of the Reinforced Staff?Reinforced Staff has higher MP / attack / magic stats (which also means more healing in a single use). Also Aerith’s Soul Drain ability, whilst it might not gain a lot of MP, again every bit helps.what about the Materia that restore mp (0.1% of damage dealt )So, idk how useful this is but I’ve been using both magnify and mp absorb with the same element.I understand it’s a lot of materia slots; however, this has allowed me the ability to use the magic often (and sometimes it paid for itself). Whatever helps you beat the game though.