| You will wake up in a church. Meet and name Aeris after talking to
her for a while. Reno (a Turk, a group employed by Shinra) and some
guards turn up. Go out the back door, to the right, jump over to the
stairs, go up them, to the left and jump over the gap. Aeris will
fall while trying to escape. She will be chased by three guards, you
can choose to make her fight them (a bad idea as Aeris is pretty
weak), tell her to wait or run. The best way to do it is to tell her
to wait, then get Cloud to push the barrels off the roof rafters to
take out the guards. The correct order in which to push the barrels
is left-most at the back, right-most at the back and right-most at
the front. If you push the wrong one, Aeris will have to fight the
guard herself.
After Aeris has got away, she will come up to where Cloud is. On the
next screen, go up the rafter that leads out to the roof, (the second
one) and Cloud and Aeris will talk for a bit. Jump across the roof
tops and get back to ground level. Go to the northwest, there is a
Save Point here, then keep going northwest then north to reach the
slums. Go see the guy in the pipe, and you can also buy materia,
armour and items here. If you are feeling particularly mean, you can
nick 5 Gil off a sick kid in the top floor of the building on the
right by looking at the drawer and picking the third option then the
first option.
Go to the far right to get to Aeris's house. In the lower level of
the garden is an Ether and Cover materia. Go into Aeris's house,
meet Elmyra, Aeris's mother, answer however you like when Aeris asks
you a question, then stay the night. See a flashback in the night
and when you wake up, check between the bed and desk for a Potion and
a Phoenix Down. You need to get downstairs, but you have to walk not
run, and not touch the walls, if you do Aeris will catch you and make
you go back to bed. (you can run when downstairs). Go outside, and
keep going to the left, and you'll meet Aeris again. In the next
screen, go up the brown wooden walkway, along the metal hole filled
bridge, down the red beam, through the tunnel, round to the left, up
the wooden pole and down the brown walkway again. Go up into the
playground, where Cloud and Aeris will talk again and then when Tifa
rides past, follow Aeris into the next screen. Go right and up to
enter Wall Market. |
Final Fantasy 
