Trophies (Yuffie-Vincent-Rare Materia-Chocobos-Grinding)

Complete the Chocochampion, Corel's Angel, Shuriken Join Us, Won't You Be My Valentine, and Making Waves trophies in final fantasy vii. Recruit Yuffie and Vincent.

Chocochampion

Win the Chocobo Racing mini-game.

You should get this trophy as part of the main storyline. After the events of the Gold Saucer/Corel Prison, you’ll have to race a Chocobo as part of your… parole? Anyways, an easy way to win (almost) any Chocobo race; at the start of the race press the [Touch Pad] to switch from Automatic Control to Manual Control. Once the race begins, press [Square] to speed up as fast as you can, while racing hold down the [R1] and [R2] buttons to regenerate Stamina. Hold down [Circle] to sprint, as your Stamina allows, ideally saving this for near the end of the race (after the wooden bridge). Some in first and this trophy is yours.

Corel's Angel

Score 10,050 points or more in G-Bike at the Gold Saucer.

The “G-Bike” mini-game at the Golden Saucer’s Wonder Square is perhaps the only mini-game there worth doing, and only for this trophy. Anywho, there’s not much to say about this one; you’re just going to have to “git gud”. There are some pointers, however, although they’re easier to say than do what with the dodgy controls and hit detection.

• Stay close to - yet behind - the vehicle you’re defending as much as possible. The enemy will have to go through you to get to its target, during which attempt you can hopefully pick them off.
• Be aggressive in your defense; the faster you kill foes, the faster more will spawn.
• Try to avoid bouncing enemy bikes off of you and into the vehicle you’re defending. Doing this can cause the enemy to score more hits than they otherwise would, and tank your score quickly.
• Try, try again. Sometimes you just take too long to get that last bike, other times, you kill one bike quickly and his bike falls and takes out several others. There’s some randomness to all this.

Shuriken Join Us

Have Yuffie join your party.

To get this trophy you’ll need to recruit Yuffie, one of the game’s two optional character. To get Yuffie to join you’ll need to find her first; run around any forest (the ones outside of Junon are the earliest in the game). After that, you’ll need to beat her in combat. After the fight, talk to her - don’t use the Save Point! - and say “Not interested”, then “Petrified…”, followed by “Wait a second!”. Next say “That’s right” and finally “Let’s hurry on”. After those five responses, she should join your party.

Won't You be My Valentine

Have Vincent join your party.

Vincent is the second optional character in the game. First things first, you’ll need to go to the Shinra Mansion in Nibelheim, which can be done any time after Cosmo Canyon. Search the note on the ground in the small room just left of the entrance to find some clues:

• Dial (1) “The lid of the box with the most oxygen.”
• Dial (2) “Behind the Ivory’s short of tea and ray.”
• Dial (3) “The creek in the floor near the chair on the second floor… then to the left five steps, up nine steps, left two steps, and up six steps.”

You need to open a safe, and to do this you’ll need to find all its dial positions. The first is on the note itself, just scroll down past the dial (3) option to find a hidden fourth option, which, when selected will give you (4: Right 97). One down, three to go:

• From the entrance head north through a doorway under the stairs, then turn left to find a large room with a piano. Search behind the piano to find (2: Left 10).
• Return to the entrance room and head upstairs, then take a left to reach a circular greenhouse. Open the chest to obtain an Enemy Launcher. Search the chest again to discover (1: Right 36).
• Finally, return back right to the main room, then - staying atop the balcony - run to the right wing of the mansion. You’ll immediately find yourself in a hallway running mostly north-south. Walk along the left side of the hallway and just keep hitting [X] until you locate (3: Right 59).

Now that you have all the codes, return to the left wing of the mansion and go into the room north of the circular greenhouse to find a safe. You’ll have to enter the codes, in order, going the right direction, within twenty seconds. So, go right to 36, then left to ten, back right to 59 and finally go right to 97. Defeat the Lost Number boss and it’ll drop you Red XIII’s ultimate limit break; Cosmo Memory. Pick up the Odin Materia and the Basement Key and head down to the basement and make your way to the second hallway area, at the beginning (left-most side) of which you should see a door to the north, which leads to a room with five coffins in it. Investigate the central - and only closed - one to meet Vincent. Pick the option “Talk about Sephiroth”, then when he goes back to “sleep”, talk to him again and ask “Who are you?” When you go to leave, he’ll swoop in and join your party.

Making Waves

Obtain the Leviathan Materia.

To get this bit of Materia, you’ll need to complete Yuffie’s materia-stealing side-quest, which occurs automatically the first time you reach Wutai (you can do this once you obtain the Tiny Bronco). Return to Wutai later on (say disc two, when you have the Highwind) and head to the pagoda, where Yuffie will have to defeat a series of four bo