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Crisis Core Reunion: How to Avoid Random Encounters

Embrace Your Dreams, and Avoid Fighting Random Enemies

In Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion, like in most JRPGs of this kind, there are random encounters. But, sometimes, you don’t want to spend hours fighting mobs in a claustrophobic dungeon. In these cases, it helps to know how to avoid these randomized encounters. That’s where we come in — read on to learn how to be strategic with your time and avoid random encounters.

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Crisis Core Reunion: How to Avoid Random Encounters

It should first be said that following this path may result in your character being severely under-leveled. Also, it’s not a fool-proof method; you will inevitably be caught in a random encounter every so often. So, if either of those caveats is a dealbreaker to you, that’s understandable. But, if you’re still with me: good.

You can use this ridiculously simple method to avoid random encounters in Crisis Core Reunion. When you’re exploring a monster-filled “dungeon,” so-to-speak, hug the walls. If you learn which areas are most likely to spawn a random encounter, you can run into the walls and move past the randos like a ninja. As I said, it’s not a perfect method, but it saves a lot of time when you don’t have to fight every monster in the dungeon. It would be a different story if the encounters didn’t immediately respawn, but they do.

What’s more — this method not only works in the story mode dungeons, but also in the missions. It’s a bit harder to manipulate when in the large, open field missions, but it’s still do-able. Just be sure to fight them every so often to avoid being significantly under-leveled …


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James Herd
James has been playing games for as long as he can remember. His first game was either The Lion King or The Mask for the SNES. He has since grown into the biggest apologist for JRPGs and he wants to be Yoko Taro for Halloween.