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Final Fantasy 7 (VII) Remake Malicious Goons Walkthrough

April 6, 2020 by Darth_Krid 8 Comments

Malicious Goons is a side quest in Final Fantasy 7 (VII) Remake. This walkthrough will guide you through all objectives of the Malicious Goons (Odd Job) Side Mission.

Malicious Goons becomes available in Chapter 14 after the first scene at Aerith’s House.

Side Quest: Malicious Goons
Chapter:
14
Area:
Sector 6 Slums – Wall Market
Quest Giver: Madam M
Requirement: Beginning of Chapter 14
Reward: HP and MP restored, Manuscript: Sharpshooter’s Companion Vol. IX (Hard Difficulty Only)
Mission Info: Cloud learns from Madam M that Corneo’s goons are on the trail of Avalanche and were seen scoping out Aerith’s house. Hurry there, as Wedge and Marlene might be in danger.

Objectives:

  • Head to Aerith’s house and defeat the Tonberry

Starting Location: Malicious Goons

Head to Aerith’s house and defeat the Tonberry

To confront the goons, head over to Aerith’s house, or more specifically, the small circular arena where you fought Reno earlier in the story. They’ll chicken out but instead send forth a Tonberry. On Easy, Tonberry is a joke. He’s susceptible to physical attacks and easily Staggers, so you should kill him in no time at all. It is possible that he uses the Chef’s Knife attack which will instantly kill one of your characters, but it’s nothing a quick Phoenix Down or Raise magic won’t solve.

On Normal or Hard, this fight is quite a bit tougher. If he gets near you, he’ll hit you with Chef’s Knife and instantly kill you no matter how much HP you have. Try keep your distance (as he has to be next to you to use it) or use Barret from distance as Tonberry seems to have a tougher time hitting AI party members even if they’re close. Build up your ATB and use Maximum Fury, swapping to Cloud to use Triple Slash when possible. He will use Scourge to freeze your character in place, and also likes to use Stop on those around him. Just whittle his health down with Barret, healing when necessary and only using Cloud or Tifa for their ATB abilities or if Barret gets frozen. He’ll teleport around so keep a lock on and he won’t be too much trouble.

When you kill him, he’ll drop an Elixir, but you get no actual reward for this quest. Encountering this iconic monster from FF lore is enough, I guess. You’ll have your HP and MP restored too.

This finishes the Malicious Goons side quest in Final Fantasy VII Remake.

Next Up: Wavering Heart

For all other Side Quest Walkthroughs, check out our complete Final Fantasy 7 (VII) Walkthrough.

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  1. AnimeJ says

    April 12, 2020 at 8:20 am

    Yea, this guide is about useless.

    On normal, Tonberry doesn’t stagger that easily, will one hit characters that are in melee range with Chef’s Knife, has Scourge, which is a long stun + damage. When he gets low on health, he’ll stun the whole part and knife two of them straight out. Also, he’ll teleport around the arena.

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    • Darth_Krid says

      April 12, 2020 at 1:17 pm

      Hey,

      Yeah I wrote this using Easy and meant to go back to it on Hard and write a strategy for that and totally forgot with all the other guide stuff I’ve been doing. Should be updated now, sorry!

    • VinceValentine says

      May 8, 2020 at 9:38 pm

      Imagine being so salty to blame the platinum trophy guide writer when dying to an enemy as big as an ant that only requires you to use debuffs or stay at range. MadBecauseBad

  2. Amis says

    April 16, 2020 at 10:57 am

    Just stay out of melee range as much as possible. I had to switch barret back to a different weapon that would allow for a more ranged attack. Sometimes if you time it correctly you can dodge and roll out before he chef knifes you. If you’re within melee range he will either 1 hit ko or freeze you.. which inevitably leads to the 1 hit ko

    Reply
  3. larry says

    April 18, 2020 at 1:01 pm

    in hard mode tomberry gave me barret’s manuscript

    Reply
  4. Tom says

    April 18, 2020 at 1:28 pm

    on hard mode, i recommend using sleep and stop on Tonberry, it really easy if he cant do anything :>)

    Reply
  5. Lennon says

    April 20, 2020 at 5:20 pm

    Think I provide a little help here, just simply use Subversion Materia Link with Warding Materia you will instant dead free, and torture this Tonberry with your liking, hopes this helps

    Reply
    • Igor says

      April 23, 2020 at 1:13 pm

      This was ultra-helpful. Warding-Subversion materia makes you resist instant death leaving you free to smash this fight with ease on Hard.

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