Hi, i've just started my twenty something run through FFVII and have ran into an annoyance i've never had before. Every single time i have played 7 i have found yuffie by spending roughly 20mins running around the forest just outside the cave you pass through with the midgar serpent on the chocobo farm side in the water, before rufus' welcoming ceremony in junon. This time however, for the first time in all my runs through, i have spent ages looking for her to no avail. she just wont show.

Now i know yuffie isn't everybodies cup of tea but i like having her in my party for the early parts of the game and find i have to get her and vincent or i dont feel i have 'completed' the game. I just find it weird that she suddenly on this time through wont show up where she always has before.

Where do you guys normally run into her, which point of the game? and whats your view on the small annoying 'ninja'? i have a theory about annoying female characters in FF games, yuffie, selphie, rikku, penello, venile its like cid being in all these games yet somehow always different but anyway i digress ><

Cheers
Mels