The Steal command is a Final Fantasy classic, a staple of the series, and in Final Fantasy VII Remake it makes a return as its own dedicated piece of command materia. Once you get the ability to steal, that leaves an obvious question: what items should you steal, and what enemies can you steal them from?
Final Fantasy VII Remake is the first part in a series of Remakes. It features the Midgar section of Final Fantasy VII but this has been vastly expanded with new activities and side quests. The platinum trophy basically wants you to gain 100% game completion. The vast majority hail VI as the best 2D game in the series by far. 'Hey, lady, I put the kiddies to sleep. Yuri Hyuga - Shadow Hearts. User Info: Final Eclipse. Final Eclipse 3 days ago #7. A proper remake would be amazing, but it's hard to see us getting that with SE as they are now. FINAL FANTASY VII. In Midgar, a city controlled by the mega-conglomerate Shinra Inc., the No. 1 Mako Reactor has been blown up by a rebel group, AVALANCHE.AVALANCHE was secretly formed to wage a rebellion against Shinra Inc., an organisation which is absorbing Mako energy, destroying the natural resources of the planet. Final Fantasy VII Remake is a fraction of the whole story. There’s more to come, but we don’t know when. After 20 years of hardware advancements, Midgar still doesn’t feel as big as we.
The vast majority of enemies in FF7 Remake have something that you can steal from them, but in most cases the stealable item is a little mundane: a potion, an antidote, etcetera. Not things worth spending an ATB charge on. A handful of enemies do have more useful items you'll likely want, however, and one enemy has a major, missable item to steal.
For more help with Cloud's reimagined adventure, check out our full FF7 Remake guide & walkthrough. It covers everything from all materia locations and music disc locations for the power of music quest to wall market dresses, Corneo's secret stash and even a detailed choices and consequences guide for those difficult dialogue options - and that's just a handful!
FF7 Remake Steal guide: how to get the steal materia and use it to get items
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To use the Steal command in Final Fantasy VII Remake, you'll first need to get your hands on the Steal materia. As detailed in our guide to the locations of all FF7 Remake Materia, the Steal Materia is available from Chadley, the Shinra researcher you first encounter in Chapter 3. You'll have to complete a bunch of Chadley's 'Battle Intel Report' missions, and mission 7, Magic Elements Pt. 2, will give you access to buy the Steal Materia from him once it's completed. That mission won't be available until Chapter 8, and all you have to do once you get it is exploit the weaknesses of 15 different types/species of enemy, which is easily done.
Once you have the Steal Materia, its use is pretty simple. It's a one-level materia that doesn't level up, and once equipped it adds a single command to your abilities menu: Steal. It costs 1 ATB to use. Stealing items isn't guaranteed, and it appears to be more likely to be successful on enemies that are weakened by having low health or being in a pressured or stagger state. If you don't get the desired item first time, you can simply wait for another ATB charge and then steal again.
How do you know which enemies to steal from? The answer is all in the Assess materia, which reveals the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy. You should be getting into the habit of assessing every enemy anyway to exploit weaknesses like the Battle Intel Mission you need to complete to even get the Steal Materia is training you to do - and alongside the stats of the enemy it also displays their drops and steal items.
You can go back to assess and steal from enemies prior to you obtaining these materia later on through chapter select. But for the completionists, here's the items you really should steal in FF7 Remake...
Enemies with Stealable Weapons
There's only one enemy with a weapon you can steal, and it's practically the reason this page exists. Eligor, the Chariot-riding ghost boss at the end of Chapter 11, has a weapon you can steal. The weapon is Aerith's Bladed Staff, and Steal is the only way you can obtain this weapon in the whole game. If you miss it, you'll have to finish the game and then return to and play through Chapter 11 again in order to fight Eligor again and have another chance to steal it. You'll want this weapon to complete the set and learn all the weapon abilities for a trophy.
Despite being a boss, Eligor isn't too difficult to steal from: just keep using the command until the bladed staff drops. A few times it was stolen first time for us, while other times we had to use Steal five or six times before it dropped. It costs no MP to steal, just an ATB charge, so it's not so bad. If you're on chapter select, you can go in on easy mode to have an easy time of it - once obtained, finish the fight and the staff will still be available in classic, normal and hard.
For more information on what the Bladed Staff is like and its abilities, check out our full FF7 Remake weapons and abilities guide.
Enemies with Materia, Armor, & Accessories:
While Aerith's Bladed Staff is by far the most useful item to come from the Steal command and the one reason to definitely equip it, there are a bunch of enemies throughout the game that also have armor and some of the best accessories available for you to steal. These items are all very well and good, but keep in mind none are exclusive: all show up elsewhere, and almost all of them are available in shops either at the same time or shortly after you encounter the enemy you can steal them from. Still, if you want to save some gil, stealing is totally an option.
- M.O.T.H. Unit: Iron Maiden.
- This item doesn't appear to be available from any of FF7 Remake's shops, but you can find one in a chest in Shinra HQ during your visit there.
- Blast-Ray: Heavy-Duty Bracer
- Grungy Bandit: Champion Belt
- Reno (Chapter 12): Magician’s Bracelet
- Rude (Chapter 12): Heavy-Duty Bracer
- Specimen H0512: Timeworn Talisman
- Type-0 Behemoth: Enchanted Ring
- Failed Experiment: Poison Materia
Enemies with useful Stealable items:
In addition to the above, where more significant items are available, most enemies in the game are carrying something that can be stolen with the Steal command materia. In most cases this is something appropriate for where you're at in the game - a potion early on, a high potion later. An ether, to restore your MP. A few enemies do carry slightly more notable, more powerful curatives like Turbo Ether or Elixir items, however, and a few also carry battle items that can be used to inflict damage or status effects on enemies. Here's a few we've noted, just in case you want to get steal happy on 'em:
- Helitrooper: Orb of Gravity
- 3-C SOLDIER Operator: Turbo Ether
- Mark II Monodrive: Turbo Ether
- Sweeper Prototype: Turbo Ether
- Grashtrike: Spiderweb
- Queen Grashtrike: Spiderweb
- Ghost: Turbo Ether
- Tonberry: Elixir
- Bomb: Molotov Cocktail
- Roche: Elixir
- Reno (Chapter 8): Ether
- Rude (Chapter 8): Mega-Potion
- Crab Warden: Molotov Cocktail
- Hell House: Mr. Cuddlesworth
- Abzu: Turbo Ether
- Ghoul: Turbo Ether
- Airbuster: AI Programming Core
If you ask me the Final Fantasy VII Remake completely blew my expectations out of the water. I remember pre-ordering Final Fantasy VII back in 1997 on the original PlayStation. I was so excited for this game and that was the same when this was released in 2020. This is just such an incredible game and I feel it has to go down as one of the greatest remakes of all time.
Like A Reflection In The Water
What truly blew me away about Final Fantasy VII Remake was the story. I love and I mean love the original story. With this game, rather than just a straight retelling, things are different and I personally feel they are different for the better. They did not just change things for the sake of doing so, they changed them to make a more original story all the while keeping the heart and some of the key moments that we know and love.
Once again, Cloud is our “hero” he has teamed up with a group called Avalanche that is led by the charismatic and badass Barrett. They have hired Cloud to help them blow up a Mako reactor that is operated by the Shinra corporation. Things do not go as planned and before long Cloud and his new friends are in a battle to save the entire planet.
Developing Those Characters
The way the characters are portrayed in Final Fantasy VII Remake is some of the best work that the people at Square-Enix have ever done. They are all much more fleshed out, even characters like Biggs, Jesse, and Wedge who were nothing more than side characters in the original are fully developed here. They also introduce a few new characters as well and these do not feel shoehorned in at all and make the overall story better. Best of all for me was the portrayal of Sephiroth who is just such a fantastic villain.
How Could It Be Like This?
The visuals are some of the best on the PlayStation 4 and I am legit very excited to see the PlayStation 5 version which is going to have even more polish to it. This game is just pure eye candy. The character models, the monsters, the insane amount of detail to the various locations that you will be going to! It all adds up to make it one of the most cinematic action RPGs I have ever played. My only slight criticism is that as this game is just the first portion of the overall story, Midgar is not the most diverse-looking game world.
Talk, Talk, Talk, Closure!
It is not just the graphics that are amazing in Final Fantasy VII Remake. This game has a fantastic soundtrack. It features many of the songs that we know and love from the original, but there is also some new music too. Not just that, the voice acting is great! I was a little worried about the game having voice acting as you get an idea in your head of how these characters will sound. thankfully, there is not a single bad performance in the entire game.
Fighting Until The End
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I love the gameplay that this game offers. In many ways, it feels like Kingdom Hearts 3. You are free to run around the battlefield, but there is still an active time battle menu system. It manages to feel modern, but at the same time, it has that feel of the way battles were in the original Final Fantasy VII. This is only the first part of this new series so the game is not super long, I would say you are looking at about 30 hours to get through it, but there is no padding here at all.
While I did have high expectations for Final Fantasy VII Remake, I have to say that the game completely surpassed them. You are always a little worried when they remake one of your favorite games, but I do not think that Square-Enix could have done a better job here. I for one am very excited to try this out on PlayStation 5 when it is released as I am sure it is going to be even better.
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Pros:
- The story in this game is incredible
- I liked how they did more with the story
- The characters are very fleshed out
- The combat is fun, satisfying and requires a bit of strategy
Cons:
- The bit in the lab maybe goes on 30 minutes too long
- I want the next installment now damn it!