Quote Originally Posted by ForestOwl
With regards to the "super-secret special abilities", you may want to know about the Apocalypse and Scimitar weapons as they are the only ones with Triple growth. Both can be found on Disc 2. Let us know when you're there so we can help you find them.
Aha, yep I know about those. Other than x3 Materia growth, do they have any special abilities?

For instance, what does the Yoshiyuki and the Princess Guard actually do? Any others like that?

I'm at the stage where I'm just about to defeat Air Buster at Mako Reactor #5, then fall into the Church and meet Aeris for the first time... Cloud, Barret and Tifa are levels 17, 16 & 15 (I think) and Aeris will start being in my party from level 14; I played forward and checked, but I'm going to level up a bit more to see if she'd get any stronger...

My current play time at the moment is coming upto 4 hours.