Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is full of various minigames and tasks for you to complete. If you are stuck in the Dustbowl, you might be looking for a Desert Rush guide. This minigame may seem simple, but it requires a lot of work if you want to get your hands on Tifa’s Dragon Claws. After all, you need to score over 42,000 points. That is no simple task.
Rebirth is a massive game full of many avenues to take. You might be interested in knowing Aerith’s Fate at the end of the game. If you are completing side content, why not go after the Leviathan and Ramuh summons? If you need help in the Dustbowl, here is your Desert Rush guide for Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.
How to get 42,000 points in Desert Rush in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
To get Tifa’s Dragon Claws in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, you need to score 42,000 points in Desert Rush in the Dustbowl. You might already be playing this minigame anyway to get the Sylkis Greens needed to feel Piko. To get this score, you need to break nearly every box in the course. That is much easier said than done though.
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At the start of Desert Rush, immediately attack the lightning bolt box to your right. This will allow you to break the gear box ahead of you. Break the boxes in this area and move on to the next section. Keep running forward to find the second lightning box. Once this is destroyed, follow the path around and break the high-value boxes. You will see some gear boxes. Break those and loop back around to where the red elevator is.
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At the top of the elevator, break the 1,500-point boxes and the next lightning box. From there, do a 180 and destroy the rest of the boxes ignoring the gear boxes. Run up the ramp and destroy the gear boxes at the top where the base of the next elevator is. At the top of this elevator, hang a right and destroy all the 50-point boxes to snag a time box. Afterward, go down the ramp, ignoring the gear boxes next to it. You will find a blue elevator. Use this to get down.
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Destroy the next lightning box and then use another blue elevator to get down back to where you started the course. Destroy the extra boxes that you didn’t hit at the beginning. Run through the course again hitting all of the gear boxes that are now spinning in the process. When you reach the top of teh elevators, destroy the boxes you couldn’t before and take the final red lift up to the top to get the final boxes. That is it for this part of the Desert Rush guide.
Tips for completing Desert Rush in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
Desert Rush is a simple game that could take you a few tries to beat thanks to the confusing course. Because of this, we have a few tips for you to help you get through the course more easily:
- Gear boxes can only be destroyed once activated
- Gear boxes are activated by destroying the required number of lightning boxes
- Save your ATB gauge abilities for larger-point boxes to destroy them easily
- Ignore the boxes at the start as you will loop back around to get them later
- Run the course a few times to memorize it
There you go, that is it for this Desert Rush guide in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. If you need more help with combat be sure to check out our guide on how Vengeance Mode works in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.