Ok so this was just, wild lol. Also to clarify what the no hard mode manuscripts mean, when you replay the game in hard mode, you can earn more manuscripts to upgrade your weapons even more, but I have yet to play on hard mode, so I'm not upgraded as much as I could be for this fight.
I didn't have a very thorough strategy for this, but I did have each of my characters set up to play a specific rule. Cloud was set to be my tank with Barrier and Revive. He had to stay alive at all costs since he had revive so I also made him a tank in the process with Barrier and HP up Materia. Tifa is the glass cannon focusing on dealing damage and assisting the team when necessary. Aeris prioritized on healing and dealing damage when the team is at comfortable health.
I will say the final battle in particular was not as hard as I expected, and this was my first attempt doing it too, so I never had knowledge of him prior. Luckily Tifa's parry is capable of avoiding all of his moves cleanly which made this fight pretty easy, though things did get a little sloppy at the end. Very intense fight. Chadley is a real one now, also this accessory I just got looks so busted lol. Gonna help breeze through hard mode now.
