Final Fantasy VII Remake Colosseum Challenge Tips

The road to 100% completion of the FF7 remake goes through Don Corneo's Colosseum. Let's talk about what's waiting for you there.

Thomas Wilde

Published: May 2, 2020 03:31 am

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In Chapter 9 of the Final Fantasy VII remake, Cloud and Aerith end up having to fight for their lives in Don Corneo’s Colosseum, ending with a challenging fight against the Hell House.

Final Fantasy VII Remake Colosseum Challenge Tips

Each fight in the Colosseum is a vicious gauntlet of standard enemies, and you must defeat five waves to clear each challenge. By the time you’re in Chapter 9, you’ve seen most of the enemies in the Colosseum before, often multiple times, so there isn’t much here that should surprise you. It’s a pure endurance match.

You aren’t allowed to use items during a Colosseum fight. However, you do receive a limited restorative effect between rounds, which will replenish 50% of your HP and 30% of your MP. You can’t go totally crazy, but you can count on a little pick-me-up at the end of each round.

It’s worth mentioning here that on your first trip through the game, it’s well worth taking the time to clear out the solo fights for each character. The rewards for victory are each character’s second Limit Break, as well as volume II of each character’s line of Manuscripts.

Due to story progression, you’ll only have Cloud and Aerith to work with in Chapter 9, and Aerith won’t be around when you can revisit the Colosseum in Chapter 14 with Barret and Tifa. If you miss something character-specific from the Colosseum, like Aerith’s second Limit Break, your only option is to return in the post-game via the Chapter Select option. Be sure to hit up Aerith’s solo fight while you’re here in Chapter 9.

Name	Rank	Cost	Opposition	Reward
Cloud vs. Wild Animals	1	100 gil	Wererat x2 Gorger x2, Blugu Guard Dog x2 Hedgehog Pie & Grastrike Lesser Drake	Manuscript: Ascension
Tifa vs. Wild Animals	1	100 gil	Wererat x2 Gorger x2, Blugu Guard Dog x2 Hedgehog Pie & Grastrike Lesser Drake	Manuscript: Dolphin Flurry
Barret vs. Wild Animals	1	100 gil	Wererat x2 Gorger x2, Blugu Guard Dog x2 Hedgehog Pie & Grastrike Lesser Drake	Manuscript: Catastrophe
Aerith vs. Wild Animals	1	100 gil	Wererat x2 Gorger x2, Blugu Guard Dog x2 Hedgehog Pie & Grastrike Lesser Drake	Manuscript: Planet’s Protection
Two-Person Team vs. Slum Outlaws	2	200 gil	Corneo Lackey x2, Bandit Corneo Lackey Bandit x2, Corneo Lackey The Huntsman Bandit x4, Huntsman	Clarity Pendant
Cloud vs. Shinra Thugs	3	300 gil	Security Officer, Grenadier x2, Sentry Gun Prototype Flametrooper x2 Sentry Ray x2, Shock Trooper Slug-Ray x2, Riot Trooper Sweeper, Sentry Launcher	Manuscript: The Art of Swordplay Vol. II
Tifa vs. Shinra Thugs	3	300 gil	Security Officer, Grenadier x2, Sentry Gun Prototype Flametrooper x2 Sentry Ray x2, Shock Trooper Slug-Ray x2, Riot Trooper Sweeper, Sentry Launcher	Manuscript: Way of the Fist Vol. II
Barret vs. Shinra Thugs	3	300 gil	Security Officer, Grenadier x2, Sentry Gun Prototype Flametrooper x2 Sentry Ray x2, Shock Trooper Slug-Ray x2, Riot Trooper Sweeper, Sentry Launcher	Manuscript: Sharpshooter’s Companion Vol. II
Aerith vs. Shinra Thugs	3	300 gil	Security Officer, Grenadier x2, Sentry Gun Prototype Flametrooper x2 Sentry Ray x2, Shock Trooper Slug-Ray x2, Riot Trooper Sweeper, Sentry Launcher	Manuscript: Telluric Scriptures Vol. II
Three-Person Team vs. Shinra Warriors	3	300 gil	Elite Shock Trooper, Elite Security Officer, Ghost Cripshay x2, Helitrooper Sahagin, Elite Grenadiers x2 Elite Riot Trooper, Sentry Gun, Laser Cannon, Scissorclaw Queen Grashtrike, Venomantis	Tarot Cards
Two-Person Team vs. Team Payback	4	400 gil	Hedgehog Pie, Hedgehog Pie King Wrath Hound Doomrat, Chromogger Bomb, Cerulean Drake Mark II Monodrive, Jury-Rigged Cutter	Moogle’s Amulet

Notably, the fights in Don Corneo’s Colosseum are not particularly different on Hard Mode. You still can’t use items either way, so much of what you have to take into account here will remain the same across difficulties.

You do have to take on all the fights in the Colosseum in order to reach some of the secret bosses that are waiting for you at the end of Hard Mode, however.

We’re still working hard on the Final Fantasy VII remake, particularly now that we’re trying to figure out what the ending could possibly mean. If you’re still working through it, check out our game hub for more guides and news:

We’ll be revisiting the Colosseum later as we continue to revise and fill out the fine details of our full guide to the Final Fantasy VII Remake. Have you cleared the Colosseum yet, or was the Hell House fight enough arena combat for you? Let us know via our official Twitter, @PrimaGames.

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Thomas Wilde

Thomas has been writing about video games in one capacity or another since 2002. He likes survival horror, Marvel Comics, and 2D fighters, so that one part of Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite where Spider-Man teams up with Frank West and Chris Redfield was basically his fanboy apotheosis. He has won World War II 49 separate times.