Quote Originally Posted by CloudLeonhart
I think you could try to beat the game with nothing but starting equipment, no materia, and no accesories. It would make emerald a bit easier, but ruby...
I've beaten the game that way + solo character. Now THAT was a challange. Beating the final boss this way is 100 times as hard as beating emerald and ruby with the old overpowered stuff.
However... I think it's pretty much impossible to beat the weapons this way...
Beating them without materia is possible and hard enough. But I think it's impossible to beat them without all the other stuff too... since that means you'll inflict about 74 dammage everytime you attack Ruby... and Ruby has 1 million HP...