10 Missable Video Game Weapons That Stopped You Getting 100%

Getting to the late stages of any RPG is usually about looking at your equipment and making a last run around the world map for anything you’ve missed. In Final Fantasy VII, this usually consists of grabbing every character’s final Limit Break special move and ultimate weapon.

Sadly a few of these are very missable depending on if you’ve fulfilled certain requirements but none are perhaps more blink-and-you’ll-miss-it bad as Barret Wallace’s Missing Score gun.

Frustratingly, this weapon literally only appears under the circumstances that you have Barret in your party at a specific point of the game. When Cloud and the gang make their way back into Midgar, if you don’t have everyone’s favourite loudmouth eco-terrorist in your group, the chest containing Missing Score simply won’t spawn. You’ll move on past, overwrite your save and be none the wiser.

Barret’s best weapon in Final Fantasy VII and the game gives you one chance to grab it? It’s an egregious example that horribly sums up how awful missable items are in games.There’s no challenge to this, it’s simply a matter of circumstance.

Barret is largely considered the most powerful party member outside of Cloud so it’s confounding that the game just lets you waltz on by if you just so happened to be hanging out with literally any other of your friends at the time.