Gongaga Gongaga is a foothill town in " Final Fantasy VII " , located south of Gold Saucer . Due to a disaster , the town has been badly damaged . As a visitor enters , they will see a fork in the road ; the left path leads to the town , and the right leads to the burned - out Mako Reactor . In " Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII - " , the village path leads farther , going into some houses on the outskirts , and eventually to a mountain - side path that ends in a cliff overlooking the village . The village and the remains of the reactor are all visible from the cliff . Story . Gongaga was the hometown of several characters from " Final Fantasy VII " , including Zack Fair , as well as one of the playable Turks from " Before Crisis - Final Fantasy VII - " , Katana ( Male ) , at which time the village was home to one of Shinra ' s Mako Reactors . After Zack and Cloud escape Nibelheim from their four - year imprisonment during " Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII - " , they pick up a motorcycle from Cissnei . Taking random highways throughout the continent , trying to avoid the Turks , the Shinra army , and the Genesis Copies who are all pursuing them , Zack stumbles upon his hometown , most of which had been destroyed by the Mako Reactor explosion . Despite realizing the likelihood of a trap , Zack ' s concern for his parents is overwhelming and he enters the town , leaving Cloud in the motorcycle on the reactor outskirts . Cissnei intercepts Zack , as the Turks had sent her to Gongaga to wait for him . She lets him go , but Zack does not leave , as he sees what he thinks is Angeal Hewley back from the dead . It turns out to be Lazard who has become an Angeal Copy , and was protecting them from Genesis and Hollander . Zack kills Hollander and chases off Genesis before either are able to harm Cloud . During " Final Fantasy VII " , the player learns the Mako Reactor explosion killed most of the townsfolk . The explosion was said to be caused by the original AVALANCHE . When the party enters Gongaga in " Final Fantasy VII " , they encounter the Turks , Reno and Rude . Cloud and the party realize that since there was no hint of anyone following them to tip off the Turks to their arrival , there must be a traitor among them who tipped them off instead . Cloud refuses to believe there is a spy , saying he trusts everyone . If Cait Sith is in the party he will try and divert attention from himself , expressing his hopes that Cloud will not blame him just because he is the new member . Later , the party overhears the first mention of the Huge Materia during a conversation between Scarlet and Tseng . The party can go to Zack ' s house and meet his parents , and if Aeris is with the party , it is revealed she used to be Zack ' s girlfriend . If Tifa is in the party she runs out and asks Cloud about his decisions to join SOLDIER if Cloud chases her . Location . Gongaga is located to the South on Gaia ' s Western continent . Quests . " Final Fantasy VII " . Part 1 events . The party can come to Gongaga as soon as they get the buggy from the Gold Saucer . If they come here before obtaining the Keystone additional events are available . Upon entering the Turks will be lying in wait and a boss battle will ensue against and . After the battle the party suspects a spy , but Cloud says he trusts everyone . The north exit leads to the reactor . Approaching the reactor will trigger a cutscene showing Scarlet and Tseng searching for " Huge Materia " , but they are out of luck . Just down and left of where the party hides is a regular Materia , Titan . At this point in the game its invisible , although it becomes visible after the party obtains an airship if it hadn ' t been picked up by that point . The west exit leads to another room with the Deathblow Materia . This and the Titan Materia do not become unavailable when the aforementioned events do . There is a dummied scene here that could take place before the events at the Temple of the Ancients , after talking to villagers , after observing the reactor , and if Barret were in the party , and the scene had not already been seen ( to prevent repeats ) . Due to a programming error the flag for whether this scene has been viewed is set automatically in the Sector 5 Church during story events , so this scene cannot be viewed in a normal playthrough . In the scene Barret speaks about Shinra doing things for money and uses its power to control people , which is why he formed AVALANCHE . Barret asks Cloud if he still plans to fight with them , and Cloud ' s answers would have affected Barret ' s love point value . Date mechanics . If Aeris and Tifa are in the player ' s party during the first visit to Gongaga , they will walk out once the player enters Zack ' s parents ' house . Talking to them afterwards earns the player affection points toward them that count toward determining Cloud ' s date at Gold Saucer , and a scene with Tifa at the end of disc 2 . Ignoring them reduces the points . Shops . " Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII - " . In " Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII - " shops can only be visited from the menu . Gongaga Trading opens after completing Mission 2 - 3 - 1 . Dummied content . Originally " Final Fantasy VII " was going to contain a traveling salesman as part of a sidequest , who would appear in Gongaga . The salesman would give two key item s to the player , one titled " Letter to a Daughter " , and another , " Letter to a Wife " . While cut from the final version , the script for the character was still written and translated and exists in the game ' s data . The salesman also says , " I came because I heard near this village was Materia strong enough to shake the earth " , which would supply the player with knowledge of the Titan Materia ' s existence , and likely the reason the Materia was moved from Kalm . The traveling salesman also has some unused lines in Rocket Town , but only in the Japanese game . A developer who worked in the " Final Fantasy VII " project at Squaresoft has said that the traveling salesman ' s Gongaga lines were created to inform the player of the Materia in the ruins of the Mako Reactor and the reason it wasn ' t used was because the staff only had five months to implement the data in the game . This wasn ' t enough time to link it to the event it connected to , so it was cut . Musical themes . The background music in Gongaga Village , like in Nibelheim , is " Heart of Anxiety " .