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In FF7 I didn't stumble upon the Cursed Ring in Mideel until I was about six playthroughs in. At that time I was still way deep in my delusions that there had to be some secret way to revive Aeris (I blame SotN for putting it in my head that all games should have a massive payoff to following an esoteric breadcrumb trail on-par with the Reverse Castle), and this felt like the biggest FF7 secret I'd ever personally stumbled across.

Speaking of OG FF7, you probably already know that all party members have a unique reaction / animation to Aeris' death right after the Jenova fight, based on who's in your active party at the time. I'd probably gotten a dozen playthroughs under my belt before I decided to have Yuffie in the party. That sequence has always made me tear up a little, but seeing Yuffie's reaction for the first time was the closest I ever came to flat-out bawling.

In Chrono Trigger when the party gets imprisoned on the Blackbird, all party members have unique dialogue reaction to finding out their supplies have been taken; on my first playthough I remember finding Frog's reaction particularly funny ("Confound it! The money too!"), and for the longest time I couldn't figure out how to re-trigger it. Turns out whoever's the party leader will comment last on the missing money (can't remember which slot comments on the consumables and which slot comments on weapons / armor).