•Turtles Paradise #1: Sector 5 slums

•Turtles Pararise #2: Shinra building raid

•Fort Condor Battle #1: Right after Mythril Mines

•Recruiting Yuffie: Right after Mythril Mines

•Fort Condor Battle #2: DIRECTLY after fighting Bottomswell with only Cloud in your party

•Fort Condor Battle #3: Very soon afterwards. After getting the dolphin whistle before riding the dolphin to upper junon

•Turtles Paradise #3: I think you can get the one in Ghost Square the first time you enter the gold saucer

•Fort Condor Battle #4: After getting the Buggy •Gongaga: before Cosmo canyon

•Fort Condor Battle #5: After selecting a party member to accompany Cloud and Red XIII before going to the Cave of Gi. Make sure you don't let the buggy break down before going to Cosmo Canyon, just park it a little bit away.

•Turtles paradise #4-5: in Cosmo Canyon

•Fort Condor Battle #6: Right after the Cave of Gi, before Nibelheim

•Shinra Mansion: In Nibelheim

•Fort Condor Battle #7: Before meeting Cid. You'll have to do a lot of backtracking, good luck.

•Fort Condor Battle #8: after getting the tiny bronco •Wutai: after getting the tiny bronco

•Turtles Paradise #6: in Wutai

•Arms Dealer/getting great gospel: after getting the tiny bronco

•Fort Condor Battle #9: after your second gold saucer visit

•Fort Condor Battle #10: After the Temple of the Ancients

•Bone Village: After the Temple of the Ancients

•Fort Condor Battle #11: After Awakening the sleeping forest

•Fort Condor Battle #12: After resting outside the Forgotten Capital

•Fort Condor Battle #13: At the beginning of disk 2

•Five Fort Condor battles happen when Cloud is out so make sure Fort Condor is has 15000 gil after you do 13

•Fort Condor Battle #14(19?): After getting the Highwind. Make sure to give them 3000 gil for another battle you must miss

•Chocobo Sage: after getting the highwind

• Old Key: in Mideel

•Scenes in the Shinra Mansion basement: after getting Cloud back

•Chocobo Breeding: After you get Cloud back

•Vincent's Cave: after getting a colored chocobo

•Ancient Forest: After getting a colored chocobo (or you could wait till later when you defeat ultimate weapon)

•Sunken Gelinka: After getting the submarine

•Returning to the cave in Wutai to get items with the Leviathan scales

•Weapon superbosses: After defeating Diamond Weapon. Though you should really wait till the very end of the game to fight ruby or emerald

Spent like an hour on this. I hope its helpful

Go to your original save file and check the side quest list (options, R2). They’re organized by chapter

Edit: look up the dress choices because there’s a trophy for all 9 (3 for Cloud, 3 for Aeris, and 3 for Tifa) and they’re affected by choices you make as early as chapter 3.

Edit: thanks for the down votes. I didn’t look at the flair and see it was for the original game. Everyone makes mistakes

While I don’t think it’s the strongest (or most enjoyable) side quest in the game, “Flowers from the Hill” took me by surprise.

Between the Sector 5 callbacks (Aerith/Cloud dialogue, instrumental version of Hollow, etc.) and its proximity to Midgar, this quest just put me a very specific headspace that went on to color how I viewed the Kalm/Grasslands area as a whole.

I also lost my mother unexpectedly the year prior to release, so everything with Billy, Chloe, and the context of what the quest is having you do 100% made me cry.

Cloud and Tifa being cat parents was great. I also really liked Barret's sidequest he did finding Cloud Jr for those kids, great stuff in there. Nibelheim's Cloud and Yuffie one was really good too.

fluffy bow wow wow and taking pics of aerith

Kyrie mission where the “theres a new merc” song was playing

Probably the cat side quest in Nibelheim just for the ending where Cloud and Tifa get to actually talk about their past for a bit. That conversation is almost a prelude to the lifestream segment as Tifa finally gets to understand bit of how Cloud really felt as a kid, being very standoffish but not wanting to be alone. And it doesn’t overdo it so the lifestream segment still has room to talk about it.

Pretty sure you have to finish the chapter for it to register

Just to throw in my two cents, of course you shouldn’t force yourself to do it if you’re not enjoying yourself, but by completing all of the side quests in that chapter, that particular characters appearance in my opinion is the best one.

Not required. Play how you’ll enjoy it. Will you miss out on some minor stuff? Sure. But if you don’t enjoy them, don’t force yourself to do them.

i love the game, so i did it all

For me personally, half the fun in any FF game is doing the side quests and going on that extra bit of adventure. I reccomend everyone do it.

I don't think all the side quests are equal, but some of them - a bunch of them, even - are really great for character relationship building. I mean literally, for the game's affection mechanic, but also, some of them are really just nice scenes that help you get to know them better.

Know that none of the sidequests are missable - you can always do them later, even at the end of the game (before the point of no return, that is - you'll know it when you get there.)

I'm playing through rebirth for the first time currently. There are definitely parts that feel slow but the side quests add so much depth to the world and the characters. Most quests have one of the characters deeply involved and I find it cute and fun to see how they react. I'm a huge fan of the original and I'm just taking my time and enjoying it. Only get that first play feel once.

I will add that I am taking mini breaks and playing other games as well to space it out. Hope you enjoy it

IMO the side quests are pretty good in Rebirth. Much better than in Remake or XVI.

Getting 3 stars on all the mini games can be tedious. I Just get 1 star and move on if you are not feeling the mini game

There's a difference between side quests and world Intel. When people are talking about burn out it's usually referring to the world Intel.

You don't need a guide or a reddit post to tell you what to do. Once you start playing you clearly see what you wanna do vs what you don't wanna do.

Just played what’s fun, and when it’s not fun, do main quest.

That's the one thing I hate about many JRPGs (and many games in general): when I progress through the story, and suddenly, 12 "New Sidequest Available!" markers appear on the map.

Most of them just amount to "Talk to this person, run to all of the Objective Markers, maybe fight two enemies or a boss if you're really lucky." And I have to do all of them, in case they have some good rewards or are necessary to unlock some more quests later on.

Quest boards are the worst, because you know the sidequests are just going to be "find 12 generic items" or "kill 20 monsters" which poses zero challenge and is just a huge waste of time.

Quality is really more important than quantity with sidequests. Chrono Trigger's endgame is the king, with its sidequests that feature unique dungeons, bosses, and give the party important character development.

I usually get burned out on side quests and I don't even aim to do them all lol. I'll set out doing a healthy amount in a game like xenoblade, then halfway through just stop doing any and mainline the story because I just wanna reach the end.

Gumball: NOOOO! A super-tedious sidequest that preys on every gamer's weakness!
Anais: Tortilla chips and sugary drinks?
Darwin: The sun?
Gumball: No, the compulsive need to complete every game to one hundred percent!

https://youtu.be/USf7ZrPAgrI?si=Lsisg7FL_V0EY2CY

I have this with SMTVV. Way too many dull side quests.

I felt the same with Rebirth. I did the quests in each area as they happened. Then at the end of the game, when you can freely travel anywhere and more quests open up at all previous locations, I nope'd out of it and went to the final dungeon. There is nothing wrong with skipping things if you're growing tired of the game. 

Chapter 13 has a point of no return prompt.

In chapters 12 and 13, the world opens up via ocean travel. You can then go back to all previous areas. If you go where the story tells you to go in chapter 13, there will be a point where it warns you that you can't go back if you choose to land at that place.

Chapter 12 will be your opportunity to cleanup and do it all 👍

Relax, the game lets you know when that happens, and it’s near the end (you still have a long way to go).

Chapter 13 but I recommend doing the side quests in chapter 12 as >!Cait Sith leaves the party in chapter 13!<

Side quests are called side quests precisely because they are skippable/optional.

Side quests don't add anything to the story if that's what your asking.

Just so you know, it's XIII. Roman numerals is uppercase i, not a lowercase l.

Most of the sidequests are after you beat the game, so if you want to stop after the final boss, that's totally up to you.

Theres a really in depth walkthrough you can use online that shows everything like secret items, Pokémon like events/wild grass encounters, and every quest in the game. The way I usually used it so I wouldn’t get spoiled since it’s set up by chapters is by going through an area then using the guide to go back and get everything that I thought would be really useful!