Final Fantasy VII:Yuffie Kisaragi

Yuffie Kisaragi is an optional playable character and self-proclaimed “Materia Hunter” who joins the party hoping to steal their Materia, with the intention of restoring her country, Wutai, to its former glory. Although a skillful ninja, Yuffie is prone to sea and air sickness and shows signs of kleptomania. She has grey eyes and black hair which is always tied back.
Yuffie is voiced by Yumi Kakazu in the Japanese releases of her appearances. In the English-speaking territories, she is voiced by Christy Carlson Romano in Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy VII Advent Children; she is voiced by Mae Whitman in all of her other appearances. In other countries, Yuffie is voiced by Ilona Otto (German) and Caroline Combes (French).

Age: 16
Date of Birth: November 20th
Birthplace: Wutai
Height: 5′2″
Weapon: Boomerang
Occupation: Materia hunter

Acquiring Yuffie in Final Fantasy VII
Out of the two secret characters that could join your party in Final Fantasy VII, Yuffie Kisaragi will be the toughest to acquire. However, getting her will prove almost vital to your adventures since if you want to, say, breed chocobo, you’d steal more efficiently from certain enemies, and Yuffie is just the character to do that.
Firstly, you’ll need to actually find Yuffie. You can find Yuffie at any time during your adventure after you leave Midgar and are able to walk and/or drive around (with your Buggie) a forest area. Any forest area will work. Don’t be fooled, though. You will encounter Yuffie just like you will encounter any other enemy randomly. If you use the Sense materia when you encounter Yuffie, her name will be ‘Mystery Ninja’.
After you engage battle with her, you’ll just have to take her down like any other enemy you have faced. You can do anything you want to take her down. It may take a while depending on your level, but she probably won’t be strong enough to take down your entire party during the battle. Do what you are most comfortable, and the hard part of acquiring Yuffie will be over.
Once the battle is over, your party and Yuffie will appear on a small map with a save point. Yuffie will be lying down, tired from battle. DO NOT USE THE SAVE POINT. Yuffie is a materia thief. You must NOT take your eyes off her. Do not access your menu or anything. If you do use the Save point or go to a menu, she will be gone and she will have taken some of your Gil.
With all this in mind, approach Yuffie while she is laying down and start to talk with her. Now, during this little dialog, you’ll have a choice of what you want to say. You must say the correct things in order for her to get the idea that you want her in your party. Follow the proceeding instructions carefully!
Yuffie: “You spikey-headed jerk One more time, let’s go one more time!”
CORRECT ANSWER: Not interested.
Yuffie: “You’re pretty scared of me, huh?”
CORRECT ANSWER: ……petrified.
After this, she’ll start to leave, but will turn back around and say:
Yuffie: “I’m really gonna leave! REALLY!”
CORRECT ANSWER: Wait a second!
Yuffie: “You want me to go with you?”
CORRECT Answer: ……That’s right.
Yuffie: “All right! I’ll go with you!”
CORRECT Answer: ……Let’s hurry on.
Congratulations, Yuffie will now have joined your party.

Limit Breaks
Level 1:
Greased Lightning- Yuffie does a combination attack, one up close and one distance attack.
Clear Tranquil
Restores minor HP for the entire party.
Level 2:
Landscaper- Yuffee slams into the ground and creates Earth damage to the enemy.
Blood Fest
Yuffie brutally pounds all enemies ten times.
Level 3:
Gauntlet- Damages all enemies with blue light power. It hits powerfully for special damage.
Doom Of The Living
Yuffie slashes fifteen times at random monsters.
Level 4:
All Creation- A massive beam slams itself violently into the enemy party.

To get All Creation, return to Wutai after completing Yuffie’s sub quest. Head to the pagoda and beat the five bosses within–she’ll get her manual once Godo is defeated in battle.

Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
Yuffie appears in Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII during a sidequest and a short stint in the story where Zack meets her in the Wutai temple.

Final Fantasy VII
In this game, Yuffie is the direct decendant of a tradition-bound ninja clan - but she could care less about “tradition.” She forcefully joins AVALANCHE, hoping to use them to obtain as much materia as possible. Within the game she is sly and completely self-centered, and her young age leads to brash decision-making and tumultuous relationships.

Final Fantasy VII Advent Children
Here she goes to Midgar in search of the kidnapped children and joins the other characters in their fight against Bahamut SIN. In “Reminiscence”, an extra scene featured in the film’s DVD edition, Yuffie attempts to contact Cloud to visit Barret and gives Cloud a gift: a “closed for business” sign to be used for his shop. The staff of the film admits in the DVD’s audio commentary that the box of materia that Cloud keeps in the church is indeed Yuffie’s.

Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII
She is shown actually helping out in evacuating Midgar shortly before Meteor fell in Final Fantasy VII, during which she manages to rescue Vincent having returned to the Sister Ray’s controls in order to confirm Hojo’s death with a hover craft as Meteor begins to fall onto Midgar.

Other appearances
Yuffie so far appears in three games of the Kingdom Hearts series. In the first game, Yuffie is first seen in Traverse Town after the battle between Sora and Leon. Along with him, Cid and Aerith Gainsborough, she fights to defeat the Heartless who had destroyed their world. She also makes an appearance in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories as a remnant of Sora’s memories of Traverse Town. Yuffie also appeared in the Olympus Coliseum in an optional fight with Leon or alone. In Kingdom Hearts II, Yuffie aids Leon and the others as part of the Hollow Bastion Restoration Committee, this time appearing in her Advent Children attire. She also appears in the Olympus Coliseum once more, with Leon. During the ending credits, we see Yuffie giving a sea-salt ice cream to Cid, while Yuna, Paine and Rikku immediately stole hers, prompting the ninja to run after them.
Yuffie is a secret playable fighter in the PlayStation version of Ehrgeiz along with Tifa, Cloud, Sephiroth, Vincent and Zack. Yuffie also makes an appearance in Itadaki Street Portable along with Cloud, Aerith, Tifa and Sephiroth.

Did you know?
Near the end of the game’s first disc, it is possible for the player to set Cloud Strife up on a date with either her, Aerith, Barret, or Tifa. During the date with Yuffie, she kisses Cloud in an awkward sequence. If the Wutai continent is visited after acquiring Cid and before the party’s raid in Midgar, Yuffie steals the player’s materia and flees to the town of Wutai, where she plays several tricks on the party to get rid of them. In the end, she gives the materia back after being saved from Don Corneo. In another sidequest, she must prove herself to her father Godo by beating the bosses of Wutai’s five-story Pagoda, including her father himself. If successful, Godo asks Cloud to take Yuffie with him on his quest, and the party receives the Leviathan materia. Due to her nature as an optional character, Yuffie is absent from the game’s FMV ending.

Final Fantasy VII: Vincent Valentine

Vincent Valentine was a Turk, noticeably having shorter hair than his current appearance, and assigned to guard the scientist Lucrecia Crescent, who previously worked with Vincent’s father, Grimoire Valentine. Over time, the two fell in love, but Lucrecia decided instead to carry the child of Hojo, head of the Science Department, for an experiment relating to Jenova’s cells. Eventually, she began seeing visions of what her son, Sephiroth, would become and became sick. In anger, Vincent confronted Hojo on the matter, only to be shot in the stomach. Hojo then experimented on Vincent, which resulted in him gaining the abilities of immortality, strength, stamina, healing, and the ability to transform into powerful beast’s. However Vincent still remained a lifeless corpse, and was then disposed of by Hojo.In an effort to save him, Lucrecia infused stagnant Lifestream, which carried a being called Chaos, into Vincent. To keep Chaos under control, Lucrecia implanted Protomateria into him. Regaining consciousness to find the place deserted and horrified at what he became, Vincent believed that this was payment for his sin, not being able to save Lucrecia. To further his punishment, he locked himself in one of the coffins in the Shinra manor basement. Though briefly waking up to converse with the leader of the Turks, Verdot, he doesn’t leave the basement and join the outside world until 30 years later.

Age: 51 (BC:FFVII - chronologically)
57 (FFVII)
59 (FFVII:AC)
60 (DOC:FFVII)
Although hes over 50, he still possess the body of a 27 year old (physically) through the games.
Weapon: Gun (Cerberus)
Birth place: Unknown, However he apparently lives in Kalm during DOC.
Occupation: Unemployed, ex-Turks

Acquiring Vincent in Final Fantasy VII
Get the Mansion Key from the safe upstairs in the Shinra Mansion. The combination is RIGHT TO 36, LEFT TO 10, RIGHT TO 59, RIGHT TO 97. Enter the locked celler halfway to Sephiroth’s Library in the basement. Enter the cellar using the gold key from the safe. Touch the foot of the purple coffin. The lid will fly off and Vincent will talk to you. Choose the bottom reply when he asks you a question. When the coffin closes, touch the coffin again. Choose the second (bottom) reply when Vincent poses another question, and you can name him. Leave the cavern and he’ll join you.

Limit Breaks
Level 1:
Galian Beast- Vincent transforms into a malevolent, wild purple beast that unleases a variety of spells and attacks against the enemy.

Level 2:
Death Gigas- Vincent transforms himself into a monster of death.

Level 3:
Hell Masker- Vincent transforms into a hockey masked, chainsaw armed monster.

Level 4:
Chaos- Vincent transforms into a malevolent winged demon, and attacks the enemy with Chaos Saber and Satan Slam.

To get Chaos, go to the waterfall in the middle of the Western Continent using either the submarine or a chocobo capable of travelling the ocean. If you enter the waterfall from the left side with Vincent in your party, he’ll meet a girl from his past. You have to visit the falls twice, once during Disc 2 and again in Disc 3; it’s during your second visit that you’ll get his manual. You’ll also get his ultimate weapon, the Death Penalty.

Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII
Vincent is seen in his normal attire having a conversation with Verdot, leader of the Turks at that time, in the Shinra basement.

Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
Here he is found sleeping a coffin by the protagonist of the game, Zack Fair. Due to the camera angle and darkness, he himself is not seen.

Final Fantasy VII
After sleeping for 30 years, Vincent is found by Cloud, who had managed to retrieve the key from the safe. Vincent was surprised by Cloud’s knowledge of Sephiroth, recognizing him as Lucrecia’s son, and demands an explanation. Cloud tells him about everything that had happened and the atrocities Sephiroth has committed, but this only served to make Vincent feel even more guilty for his failure and he shuts himself back in the coffin. After some further coaxing from Cloud, he emerges from the coffin again and tells who he was and about Lucrecia, before sealing himself again. But when Cloud leaves the room and begins to head back upstairs, Vincent catches up to him and joins Cloud after learning that his group may eventually meet up with Hojo with whom he had an understandable vendetta.

For the remainder of Final Fantasy VII, Vincent plays a very minor role and very little story is centered around him. The only other time that there is any focus on Vincent is when they use the submarine to travel through an underwater cave and surface in a small lake surrounded by mountains. They find a cave in one of the surrounding mountains, and inside the cave Vincent finds Lucrecia, who in her pain and regret had sealed herself away in mako crystals. Reviving briefly, Lucrecia asks Vincent if Sephiroth is still alive, but he lies to her, telling her that he is dead in order to spare her the pain of learning about the atrocities that Sephiroth had committed. He later gets his wish to battle Hojo when the group discover him in Midgar, and joins the battle against him.

Final Fantasy VII Advent Children
Vincent first appears rescuing Cloud from Kadaj and his gang, transforming into an intangible monster evocative of his cloak. He reveals to Cloud the cause of Geostigma, of Kadaj’s intentions to merge with the remaining Jenova cells to bring about Sephiroth’s rebirth, and that he rescued two of the Turks, Tseng and Elena, from them. He later showed up to help his friends defeat the Bahamut SIN summoned by Kadaj. It was Vincent who told his friends not to help Cloud and let him face his own personal battle against Sephiroth, confident in Clouds ability to win. He was seen in the end with the rest of the characters and appears in a picture all of them took together.

Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII
Vincent acts as the central character, working with Reeve and the World Regenesis Organization to eliminate an organization called Deepground. Deepground targets Vincent for he unknowingly carries the Protomateria inside his body. It eventually is forcefully ripped from his body by the Deepground Tsviet Rosso the Crimson. Though he survives, he becomes plagued with flashbacks and feels the stress of Chaos’s desire to kill. Eventually he confronts the Deepground leader, Weiss, who he discovers has been possessed by the digitalized mind of Hojo. Hojo reveals information on Vincent and his plans to awaken Omega, whose original purpose was to absorb the Lifestream and leave the planet when it was destroyed. With gathered information, Hojo created the plan to awaken Omega early. However, the renegade Deepground member, Shelke, urges Vincent to take control of Chaos power, and Vincent battles Weiss, succeeding due to Weiss’s pure Lifestream force being contaminated by his brother, Nero. When Weiss enters the Lifestream, Hojo’s mind dispersed, but Omega was awakened. The full power of Chaos was also drawn out, but with the effort of Shelke, Vincent reaquires the Protomateria and takes control of Chaos’s true form, succeeding in destroying Omega’s mortal shell, freeing the Lifestream. He survives this attack, with Chaos joining Omega in returning to the planet until they are truly needed. Vincent thanks Lucrecia in her cave, now understanding she was the reason he survived and leaves her resting place, able to begin his life anew.

Dirge of Cerberus Lost Episode: Final Fantasy VII
The mobile game Dirge of Cerberus Lost Episode: Final Fantasy VII also uses Vincent as the main player, and takes place during Dirge of Cerberus. It recounts what happened when Vincent was traveling by helicopter to Shinra Mansion and was attacked by Deepground. He fights his way to Shinra Mansion, destroying many Deepground soldiers and a battle bot.

Other appearances
Vincent appears in the fighting game Ehrgeiz as an unlockable fighting character. His Turk uniform serves as his alternative costume.

Did you know?
Vincent is often seen as one of the more popular characters in the Final Fantasy VII conglomerate, even rivaling the main character, Cloud Strife, and the main antagonist, Sephiroth, who is often voted to be one of the most popular villains ever. Vincent’s popularity has also lead to merchandise being created related to Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII and Dirge of Cerberus Lost Episode: Final Fantasy VII, games where he was the central character, as well as action figures being released.

Square Enix admires DS sales

Square Enix recently posted its financial standings ending March 31, 2008, and suffice to say, the relationship with Nintendo must be amiable at worst.

The total sales for their games can be seen following:
* Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen (DS) - 1,150,000 (Japan)
* Final Fantasy IV (DS) - 590,000 (Japan)
* Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings (DS) - 540,000 (Japan), 222,000 (US), 280,000 (Europe)
* Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates (DS) - 380,000 (Japan), 160,000 (US), 150,000 (Europe)
* Itadaki Street: Mario & Dragon Quest (DS) - 430,000 (Japan)
* Final Fantasy III (DS) - 480,000 (Europe. 2 million globally)
* Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (PSP) - 800,000 (Japan), 450,000 (US)
* Dragon Quest Swords (Wii) - 490,000 (Japan), 110,000 (US)

However offline game sales fell 45%, and mobile game sales were less than expected.

The upside to this is that company boss Wada-san explained mobile content could easily be transferred to the Nintendo DS, so it’s not as unlikely we’d see Parasite Eve 3, Tobal, or Final Fantasy IV: The After (the sequel to FF IV) on the handheld, as Japan has with Front Mission 2089: Borders of Madness.

Square Enix also have the new Xbox 360 RPG game up their sleeve; Infinite Undiscovery, developed by tri-Ace.

This is going to be a hell of a year for Square Enix.