Mako Reactor No. 1
After a stunning introductory flick to the game, you find Cloud jumping off a train and knocking out some Shinra guards. "C'mon newcomer! Follow me!" With those fateful words from Barret, the leader of the rebel group AVALANCHE, your adventure begins.
Before following Barret to the next area, be sure to check the guards' unconscious bodies for Potions. Then follow Barret. But as you follow Barret, you're suddenly attacked by more Shinra guards. Your first battle!
No worries, though, as you start off at level 6 and with the Lightning and Ice materia with you. Also, Shinra thugs are weak right now, often dying from a single blow from Cloud's Buster Sword. Once dispatching the guards, go ahead to the next area where you'll find the members of AVALANCHE: Jesse, Biggs, and Wedge.
After talking to the rebels, Barret soon comes by and makes a big speech about how you're working for AVALANCHE now, then he joins you. After that, the gate opens. Follow the rebels and talk to them to get the other gate opened.
Walk through the door adn head east, then north into the elevator. Press the triagular switch and down you go. Once the doors open, exit and descend the stairs, then head through the door to the south. In the next area, jump over the crack, climb down the ladder, and head south. Climb down the two ladders then head south again to a large pipe. Head west along the pipe and climb down the ladder. Next to the base of teh ladder is your first twirling Save Point. Hooray! Now you can access the Menu to save oyur game.
After saving your game, run east to the dead end. Heal up with Potions before setting the bomb. Why? Well, because as you set it, you'll suddenly be attacked by the robotic terror, Guard Scorpion. Just keep on fighting it until it bites the dust, but do not attack it while its tail is shaking.
After disposing of your first enemy boss, the bomb is set and you're given only 10 minutes to high-tail it out of there before the big KABOOM! Now's a good time to start running (do so by holding down [CANCEL] with the Directional Buttons) to lessen your enemy encounter rate. Be sure to talk to Jesse before leaving, or you won't be able to escape.
With the big blast, your first
mission is over. Congratulations! You then escape the exploding
reactor in the nick of time and emergefrom a caved-in passageway
with the rebels. They then tell you to meet up with them later
on, then split. Climb the stairs, and you'll soon arrive in the
main reaches of the city, where you'll accidentally bump into Aeris, a sweet flower-girl. Buy a
flower from her or not, it doesn't make a difference, but shee
soon splits and the area is your to explore.
Not much happens there and the people don't say much of anything of importance. Keep heading south until you arrive at the intersection of two streets. Uh-oh...Shinra guards! You can choose to fight them or to run away, but either way, you'll end up jumping off the bridge onto the train and, ultimately, meeting up with AVALANCHE. After some brief words, you'll soon get off the train and end up in Sector 7.
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