Final Fantasy 7 Remake: 14 Tips & Tricks The Game Doesn't Tell You

8. Weapon Core Abilities Are Directional, THEN The Order Shown

A tiny point to make, but the weapon core menu can be pretty confusing, even multiple hours in.

A couple of pointers then:

1. When hovering over materia slots, look to the top left to see which exact slots are about to be chained together, versus expanding into more slots overall.

2. When you're hovering over the list of attributes associated with that core, whichever direction you push on the stick will highlight that upgrade directly. If something is above you, tapping up will go there.

However, after that first selection, using up, down left and right will only go up and down the original list of buffs, in the order they were shown when hovering over the central core.

Hopefully that makes sense, as for a good 25 hours of game-time, I was mousing over everything, and only upgrading when I finally landed on the thing I wanted.