FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH - 100% Achievement Guide
Handful of missable achievements, but chapter select unlocks for NewGame+.
The stuff you want to know about
Depending on your definition, there's basically no missable achievements in Rebirth.
The game's story is split into chapters. Once you've completed the story, you'll unlock chapter select AND you're required to complete all these chapters a second time on the NG+ exclusive hard difficulty for an achievement anyway.
This means you can safely play the game blind once and avoil all spoilers whatsoever, then come back to this guide for the cleanup and required second playthrough.
That first playthrough can be played on any difficulty of your choice.
Next up: Side-content.
Rebirth features several pseudo-open world areas with the typical map marker driven objectives, as well as 30+ side missions.
EVERYTHING you can do in these areas remains available up until chapter 13. You can safely postpone all optional content, if you want to. You can even finish the main story and then hop back into chapter 13 via chapter select to clean up all this stuff.
All map exploration and -completion carries over to the chapter select / NewGame+.
Completing side missions in hard difficulty gives additional rewards.
Whenever you decide to replay a chapter, you can choose whether or not you want to reset already completed side-missions.
Here's a quick overview of everything you do and don't need to do for all achievements.
More detail in the chapters below.
You need to:
- collect all 88 treasures
- max out proficiency with every weapon
- all missed weapons from chests can be bought at any vendor in NG+
- complete all side quests
- tame all chocobos
- complete all orange map markers / collect all world intel
- trade for all materia from chadley, including the duplicates
- get all scenic shots for the NPC Snaps
- get max rank for all minigames
- except the piano, for which A rank suffices
- most have second stages in chapter 13, which also need to be max ranked
- max out your rank for Queen's Blood
- though you do not need to collect all cards
- complete all combat challenges from all sources
You partially need to:
- complete "discovery" objectives only for chapters 4, 5, 11, 12. (Refer to guide section below).
- max out the level for "Enemy Skill", as the only materia required to be leveled.
- obtained through Chadley's "Biological Intel: Know Thine Enemy"
- (you'll want to have lots of other maxed materia for endgame content though)
- in order to unlock all combat challenges from Chadley you need to:
- assess 16 & battle 24 enemies in area 1: Grasslands
- assess 10 & battle 15 enemies in area 2: ___ Junon __
- assess 25 & battle 38 enemies in area 3: ___ Corel ___
- assess 14 & battle 20 enemies in area 4: __ Gongaga _
- assess 15 & battle 22 enemies in area 5: Cosmo Canyon
- assess 16 & battle 24 enemies in area 6: ___ Nibel ___
- increase your party level to 8 and get enough SP (manuscripts) to unlock the "Limit Break" nodes in each character's folio
- both accumulate passively by all other required content and can therefor be ignored
- get 50% relationship progression with every character
- progresses passively by all other required content and can therefor also be ignored
- collect the first 6 piano songs and achieve A rank for them
- 5 of them unlocked by interacting with the different pianos, 1 by a certain side quest
You do NOT need to:
- assess main story exclusive encounters
- collect all Queen's Blood cards
- though it makes the required minigame a lot easier
- find & complete all Cache locations
- find & restore all Chocobo stops
- collect any Chocobo outfits
- clear the 3 optional checkbox objectives for the pseudo-open world combat locations
- progress craftsmanship / transmuter level
- collect any armor pieces & accessories
- collect any Materia outside of Chadley's trades
| Achievement | Image | Description |
|---|---|---|
| The Planet’s Hope |  | Earn all FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH achievements. |
Missable Chapter-Specific Content
Here's all the content you need to do outside of Chapter 13.
If you have skipped any of these, do NOT reload an earlier save to get them. Rather, finish the story and re-visit these chapters via chapter select, so that the treasures get saved to your overarching safe file progression.
Chapter 4:
Once you're in the actual city of Junon, you'll be tasked with rallying the 10 troops of the 7th infantry.
- Treasure - "Rufus Shinra Cutout":
On the main street, you'll come across a troop which asks you to make a photo of them with a cardboard of Rufus. Make an actually good photo to unlock the treasure. (You might want to save in front of them, in case you mess it up.)
| Achievement | Image | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 7th, Assemble! |  | Recruit all Midgar 7th Infantry units for the parade in Junon. |
| Stealing the Show |  | Win the prize for outstanding performance in the Junon parade. |
- Treasures - "Award for Outstanding Performance" & "Presidential Commendation"
Once you got the treasure just above, make sure to round up all the remaining troops.
With all of them rallied, pick all the non-yellow troops for the parade, so that you'll have to do the Ramuh, Shiva and Bahamut formations on 3* each. Play the minigame well enough to earn 100k+ likes.
- Treasure - "Stuffed Stamp":
After you've received the achievements above, watched the ensuing cutscenes and regained control, you'll be accompanied by 5 members for the 7th infantry. Make sure all 5 of them survive until the end of the chapter. You can actively heal them.
Chapter 5:
| Achievement | Image | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Card Royalty |  | Win the Queen’s Blood tournament held on board the Shinra-8. |
- Treasure - "QB Tournament Champion":
Exactly what it says in the achievements description.
Chapter 11:
- Treasure - "Stuffed Fat Moogle"
An elevator late into the chapter will stop midway through and start a minigame.
You'll have to hit all 10 crates within the onscreen time limit.
Chapter 12:
| Achievement | Image | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Critically Acclaimed |  | Receive a review of S or higher for your performance in Loveless at the Gold Saucer. |
- Treasures - "Best Actress: Tifa" & "Best Actress: Yuffie"
There's actually 6 treasures here, one for each character. Cloud, Barret, Red XIII and Aerith will always be unlocked, if you get a S rank for the Loveless mini game.
In order to get Tifa's and Yuffie's treasures though, you'll specifically need them to be your date.
The first time you play through Chapter 12, you'll be paired with the character that has the highest relationship value up until that point.
When you replay the chapter through chapter select, you can handpick your date via "System -> Extra Settings" before you actually start the chapter.
Main Story
| Achievement | Image | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Never Meet Your Heroes |  | Complete Chapter 1. |
| Swampy Situation |  | Complete Chapter 2. |
| Make Mine Black |  | Complete Chapter 3. |
| The President’s Commendation |  | Complete Chapter 4. |
| Cryptic Cameo |  | Complete Chapter 5. |
| Fun in the Sun |  | Complete Chapter 6. |
| The Price of Progress |  | Complete Chapter 7. |
| Worth the Weight? |  | Complete Chapter 8. |
| Crying Out |  | Complete Chapter 9. |
| Stars Fell from My Eyes |  | Complete Chapter 10. |
| You’re Not Murasaki |  | Complete Chapter 11. |
| Hearts Out, Dukes Up |  | Complete Chapter 12. |
| I’m Here for You |  | Complete Chapter 13. |
| Confluence of Worlds |  | Complete Chapter 14. |
Complete all chapters on a difficulty of your choice.
| Achievement | Image | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Of Hardy Stock |  | Complete all chapters on Hard difficulty. |
Available after having finished the game for the first time.
You can do this via chapter select in any order of your choice.
Combat
| Achievement | Image | Description |
|---|---|---|
| I Got This |  | Win a battle. |
| Exploitative Practices |  | Exploit an enemy’s weakness. |
| Unfettered Friendship |  | Free a bound ally. |
| Team Player |  | Use a synergy skill. |
| No “I” in “Synergy” |  | Use a synergy ability. |
| Break It Down |  | Use a limit break. |
| Fledgling Summoner |  | Invoke a summon. |
Basic gameplay features. Explained by ingame tutorials in the early game.
| Achievement | Image | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Staggered Learning |  | Stagger an enemy. |
| Staggering Success |  | Deal 300% or more damage to a staggered enemy. |
| You Work for Me Now |  | Defeat a summon in battle and obtain its materia. |
300% stagger isn't related to fighting a summon, but they are handily available and can easily be defeated by the strategy below. Win-win.
The key player here is Tifa.
- Weapon: Sylph Gloves or Dragon Claws with "ATB Charge Rate Up" weapon ability
- Accessoire: Speed Demon Keychain (automatically obtained at the end of chapter 4)
- Folio abilites: "ATB Charge Rate Up" and "Weapon Ability ATB Recovery"
With all of these, any Omnistrike from Tifa replenishes like 40% of the ATB bar (so basically 80% to charge another Omnistrike).
Go up against any boss - for example one of the summons - use an unbridled strength to charge up an omnistrike, fill the ATB bar, then stagger an enemy.
Once staggered, immediately go for Omnistrike -> Unbridled Strength -> repeat.
If it gets close, you can finish up with a True Strike. It's faster, but it replenishes way less ATB.
For the other 2 party members, you can also pick a combo with a Synergy Ability, which increases both stagger % and time, once unlocked in the folio board:
- Yuffie's "Halcyon Descent" + Cloud
- Aerith's "Sweet-and-Sour Salvo" + Barret
- Barret's "Purrfect Shot" + Cait Sith
- Cait Sith's "Mega Moogle Mash" + Aerith
- Red XIII's "Ringmaster" + Aerith
| Achievement | Image | Description |
|---|---|---|
| A Materia World |  | Level up an orb of materia. |
| Grind It Out |  | Attain level 70 with a character. |
| Weapons 101 |  | Max out a weapon ability’s proficiency. |
| Well-Rounded |  | Master all weapon abilities and limit breaks, including those found in folios. |
Well, continue to throw yourself into battles to grind and earn Exp, AP and Proficiency.
Character level 70 might seem like much during your initial main story progress, but it's actually unmissable while completing all quests and the required NewGame+ playthrough.
You can buy 45 out of the 49 weapons at any weapon vendor, once you've unlocked chapter select.
So let's talk about the remaining 4:
- Barret's Fafnir Rifle: Complete the Gongaga Side-Quest "The Pursuit of Perfection".
- Yuffie's Crescent Sickle: Start the Cosmo Canyon Side-Quest "Bonds of Trust" to get access to the "Glide the Chocobo" minigame. Get rank III on the first course.
- Cait Sith's Gjallarhorn: Start the Nibelheim Side-Quest "Esoteric Secrets of the Elders". Deliver 30 Chocograss for the quest itself, and another 15 to the vendor within the building.
- Aerith's Plumose Rod: Complete the Nibelheim Side-Quest "Lament of the Damned". The quest will have you complete 4 combat simulator challenges within the Shinra Manor. Once done, do the remaining 4 and a door to a nearby chamber will open, with the weapon inside.
Once done, get the 7 limit breaks within the folio boards.
This will require Party Level 8, which shouldn't pose a problem though, given all the other content required for 100%.
| Achievement | Image | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Virtually Renowned |  | Complete all of Chadley’s combat simulations. |
This one is quite annoying, to be honest.
Mostly because you need to battle basically all available enemy types in all of the regions:
- assess 16 & battle 24 enemies in Grasslands
- assess 10 & battle 15 enemies in Junon
- assess 25 & battle 38 enemies in Corel
- assess 14 & battle 20 enemies in Gongaga
- assess 15 & battle 22 enemies in Cosmo Canyon
- assess 16 & battle 24 enemies in Nibel
But you'll also need to
- max out the level of the "Enemy Skill" materia
- obtained throught Chadley's "Biological Intel: Know Thine Enemy"
- complete the pirate relic in chapter 13 (started at the pier in Costa del Sol)
- beat the boss at the end of the protorelic questline
- level up your characters to about level 70+
And now you'll actually need to complete all the simulations, which contain the most difficult fights in the entire game...
Good Luck!
Open World
All of the achievements below can be obtained in Chapter 13.
| Achievement | Image | Description |
|---|---|---|
| New Blood |  | Raise your Queen’s Blood rank. |
| Caching In |  | Complete your search of a cache location. |
| I Brake for Chocobos |  | Repair three chocobo stops. |
| Expert Ex-kweh-vator |  | Use a chocobo to find two treasures buried by rabbits. |
Complete a few of the non World Intel open world objectives.
These 4 can easily be obtained as early as chapter 2.
You'll need to max out your Queen's Blood rank for one of the treasures, and dig up another 6 treasures with your chocobo, one per region. More on that in the Treasure Trove chapter at the bottom.
| Achievement | Image | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Piano Virtuoso |  | Play all six Piano Outreach Association songs well enough to receive remuneration. |
You'll get the first 5 songs by interacting with the 5 pianos in
- Junon region -> Crow's Nest
- Corel region -> Costa del Sol
- Corel region -> North Corel
- Gongaga
- Cosmo Canyon
You'll obtain the 6th song by completing the Nibelheim Side-Quest "My White-Haired Angel"
Once you have all 6 songs, obtain an A rank for all of them and talk to the NPC Dorian, who stands right next to the first 5 pianos mentioned above.
| Achievement | Image | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Moogle Lover |  | Max out your moogle emporium merchant rank. |
| Intelligence Aide |  | Gather world intel at five separate locations. |
| Intelligence Specialist |  | Gather world intel at fifty separate locations. |
| Director of Regional Intelligence |  | Gather all pieces of world intel in a region. |
| Materia Completionist |  | Develop all possible materia together with Chadley. |
Complete all orange map markers in all of the regions, aka collect all world intel.
You'll need to trade for ALL of Chadley's materia, including the duplicates.
One final materia becomes available for trade, once you've fully completed the protorelic questline:
| Achievement | Image | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Founder’s Bonus |  | Obtain a protorelic in the Grasslands. |
| Fort Condor Commander |  | Obtain a protorelic in the Junon region. |
| Cactuar Crusher |  | Obtain a protorelic in the Corel region. |
| Honorary Turk |  | Obtain a protorelic in the Gongaga region. |
| The Gambit Paid Off |  | Obtain a protorelic in the Cosmo Canyon region. |
| Professional Handler |  | Obtain a protorelic in the Nibel region. |
| Bladesman of Legend |  | Defeat Gilgamesh. |
The game will mark the first protorelic location of each region on your map. Some of them are available immediately upon entering the region, while others require some further main story progression; one of them even multiple chapters.
The game will explain each questline by itself, just as it'll tell you what to do for Gilgamesh, once you've obtained all 6 protorelics.
Make sure to talk to Chadley afterwards, in order to trade his final materia for the achievement further above.
| Achievement | Image | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Entering New Markets |  | Complete a quest. |
| My Job Here Is Done |  | Complete all quests. |
Just completing them is enough.
Neither do you need the perfect outcome for each quest, nor do you need the hard difficulty manuscript rewards.
| Achievement | Image | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Hall of Famer |  | Win all chocobo races. |
| Are You Not Entertained? |  | Complete all bouts in the Musclehead Colosseum. |
| Polygonal Prizefighter |  | Defeat Sephiroth in 3D Brawler. |
Have fun in the Gold Saucer =)
To unlock Sephiroth for 3D Brawler, you gotta complete all 36 side quests...
7-Star Hotel / Treasure Trove
| Achievement | Image | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1-Star Startup |  | Donate 10 items to the treasure trove at Johnny’s Seaside Inn. |
| 3-Star Hotel |  | Donate 30 items to the treasure trove at Johnny’s Seaside Inn. |
| 5-Star Hotel |  | Donate 60 items to the treasure trove at Johnny’s Seaside Inn. |
| 7-Star Hotel |  | Inform Johnny that you have donated all possible items to his treasure trove. |
For a full treasure-by-treasure list, refer to this guide by PowerPyx: Link
You can unlock the treasure trove in chapter 9 at the earliest, by completing the Costa del Sol Side-Quest "The Saga of the Seaside Inn."
Here's a summary of all you need to do for the remaining treasures, which haven't been taken care of by all of the achievements in the chapters above.
Complete / get the highest rank for all minigames available in chapter 13 - hardmodes and secondary stages included:
- All regions - Queen's Blood - Attain Highest Rank
- Grassland - Chocobo Ranch - Hustle de Chocobo
- Under Junon - Priscilla - Dolphin Show
- Under Junon - Frog Area - Jumpfrog
- Junon region - Protorelic locations - Fort Condor (hard mode)
- Costa del Sol - Card Carnival
- Costa del Sol - Pirate's Rampage
- Costa del Sol - Run Wild
- Gold Saucer - Wonderment - G-Bike
- Gold Saucer - Wonderment - Card challenges
- Gold Saucer - Wonderment - 3D Brawler
- Gold Saucer - Speed Square - Galactic Saviors
- Corel region - Gym to the west of Costa del Sol - Crunch-Off
- Corel region - Dustbowl - Desert Rush
- Corel region - Protorelic locations - Cactuar Crush (hard mode)
- Cosmo Canyon - Glide de Chocobo
- Cosmo Canyon - Protorelic locations - Gears and Gambits (hard mode)
Beyond that:
- Gold Saucer - buy all the unique items at each individual vendor
- Corel region - Dustbowl - complete all Beast Battleground challenges
- All regions - Talk to the NPC Snaps in all the cities / villages and visit the scenic spots he marks on your map
- Use your chocobos to dig up the 6 "PLAY ARTS" treasures; one per region. The exact locations are somewhat random, so I've marked all known / confirmed treasure spots in purple, and all other possible dig spots in red:
- Grasslands:
- Junon:
- Corel:
- Gongaga:
- Cosmo Canyon:
