FF7 any% No Slots Speedrun in

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Game: Final Fantasy VII
Category: any% No Slots
Version: NTSC-U
Date: July 8th 2022

This is the main speedrun category for this game. It prohibits the use of Cait Sith's 2nd Limit Break "Slots" which has the ability to win every boss fight immediately. It skips big chunks of the start of CD1, Kalm, Cosmo Canyon and the end of CD2. It uses Tifa's weapon "Powersoul" to deal 16 times her basic attack damage.

This is my Final PB and World Record after a long grind in this category. My big goal was a sub 35 and I grinded for it since February 2022. The route had a lot of issues for a while, especially around the Steproute and the Long Range Materia. We came up with a good route eventually featuring elevator manipulation, a good steproute with especially nice formations, Long Range and using the Fury Ring in combination with a Spider Web for Demons Gate. I am extremely happy about this run. It was a very quick improvement after my last PB that I set only a few days earlier, which was a 6:35:23. It was a bit devestating that it wasn't a sub 35 since I thought it would take weeks, potentially months until I get another chance for such a run but already next session RNG blessed me with another run and another chance.

The run was overall amazing. I managed to make up the big deficits that my old PB had in the first two hours and keep it. The run has some noticable timelosses at Materia Keeper, Schizo and Hojo but literally every other part of the run was beautiful, it was a truly blessed run. This run features also my first perfect Demons Gate fight with the new strats with a fight length of just over 2 minutes, it was a beautiful fight. I hope everyone has as much fun watching the run as I had running it.