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Chapter 5: Dogged Pursuit

FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE guide · Cloud and the team travel through the underground tunnels.

Cloud, Barret, and Tifa travel through the Corkscrew Tunnel after leaping off the train to avoid Shinra security. The team must navigate abandoned underground rail paths and maintenance facilities while clearing out automated defense systems and monsters. The chapter concludes inside a train car freight depot where the party faces the Crab Warden boss.

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Music Disc 28: Stamp: Purchased from the vending machine in the train depot section before the final boss arenaMusic Disc 28 "Stamp" | Purchase it from a vending machine located just outside the rail facility entrance before boarding the automated platform lift, as you cannot return without Chapter Select | missable: yes

Items

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Healing Materia: Inside a side room within the maintenance corridor early in the railway tunnelsLightning Materia: Found on the ground in the cargo transit depot near the automated turret platforms

Enemies

Crab Warden

Weak to Lightning

A large Shinra defense machine with vulnerable auxiliary parts like its legs, which can be crippled to build its stagger gauge.

Sentry Ray

Weak to Lightning

Ceiling-mounted defensive turrets that fire continuous laser beams and should be prioritized with ranged attacks.

Slug-Ray

Weak to Lightning

Flying mechanical drones that harass from the air and are easily pressured using Thunder spells or Barret's gunfire.

Grashtrike

Weak to Ice

Insectoid monsters encountered on the rail tracks that inflict the Poison status effect.

Shops and people

Train Depot Vending Machine: Potions, Phoenix Downs, restorative consumables, and Music Disc 28: Stamp

Tips

Equip Barret and Cloud with Lightning Materia before heading into the rail facilities, as almost all Shinra mechanical drones and the chapter boss are severely weak to Lightning damage.
Focus attacks on individual legs of the Crab Warden during the boss encounter; breaking a leg immobilizes the machine and significantly boosts its stagger meter.

Not listed for this area: secrets.

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