Yeah, I can get started on, and hopefully finish, the Midgar chapter today. I'll let you know how it goes.
Let me share how far I've gotten so far:
Save #1: First Save Point. Picked up the two potions from the unconscious guards and the Phoenix Down from the chest in the reactor.
Save #2: Picked up Restore Materia, defeated Guard Scorpion (Braver+1), Equipped Barret with Assault Gun and saved at previous point
Save #3: Picked up Ether at top of the room, rescued Jesse, bought flower from Aeris, picked up Potion from Sector 8 Square, didn't fight guards, saved outside train station
Save #4: AVALANCHE-related and Cloud/Tifa Promise scenes, skipped Materia tutorial, picked up "All" Materia and whatever it was in treasure chest (Ether?) from learners hall, bought three iron bangles and a Fire Materia, saved in same place as Save #3
Save #5: Got 100 gil stolen (I don't care about losing that), picked up green item in duct after sliding down hole in the wall at the end of the tracks, saved right before entering Reactor #5
Save #6: Got all the items in that area between tracks and reactor, saved at bottom of reactor 5
Save #7: Saved in room before exiting Reactor 5
Save #8: Picked up Phoenix Down from chest, beat Air Buster (Beat Rush+1), Cloud's in Limit Break at end of battle, met Aerith (named her that), made mistake dropping first barrel, others were correctly dropped, Saved outside church after getting back to the ground
Save #9: Saved at Aerith's house (probably dumb because this was probably less than 30 seconds away from last save)
Save #10: Got all items around Aerith's house, took the 5 Gil, talked to Aerith's mother, saved outside house
Save #11: Just entered Wall Market
Save #12: Became "Ms. Cloud" with basic dress and best wig, Saved in Wall Market
After that Cloud died during the battle with Aps (During the same Sewer Tsunami attack that killed him I might add
) because I forgot to give Aerith the Cure=All before the fight. I could have revived him, but I lost the will to keep going at the time. I'll continue later.
I have run from every escapable battle so everyone has pretty low levels.
Battles fought and kill count in save 12:
First two MPs (Cloud+2)
Guard Scorpion (Cloud+1)
Air Buster (Barret+1)
MP (Aerith+1)
Total encounters: 21
Total escapes: 17
Upcoming battles:
Corneo's Lacky x5 + Scotch (Cloud+6) (Unless I replay save #11 to get Cloud the best stuff (which I might).
Aps