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Title: Xenosaga Official Strategy Guide by Dan Birlew, Bradygames, Laura M. Parkinson ISBN: 0-7440-0239-7 Publisher: Brady Games Pub. Date: 21 February, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: One of Dan Birlew's better Strategy Guides
Comment: I recommend this strategy guide to those who plan on playing the game. It is true that you can beat the game without a guide. However, the game has plenty of side quests and important (but optional) items to collect that the chances of you finding them all is very unlikely without some sort of guide.
Also, the characters in the game are highly customizable. Meaning, you can manipulate their attributes to your preference. The problem is that the process for doing that is not readily obvious. And there are many ways to go about doing so. Some "bonus" items will be impossible to obtain accidentally, and some require that you make certain decisions, in the right order, in the right place, at the proper time. This strategy guide will help you get the most out of the game.
My only minor complaint is that the quality of the paper used in the cover could have been better. And that criticism also apply to most of the newer game guides out there. I prefer the covers to be made of heavier weight material, for example. I am picky, perhaps, because I collect these guides.
Rating: 5
Summary: A MAJOR Help!
Comment: As far as strategy guides go, I'm more concerned with how its going to get me through the game, and also if it can get me through the game with ease. That's the MAIN point of a guide is to get you through the game. The Xenosaga Official Strategy Guide does this with ease. There are a couple of gripes present but otherwise very nice.
The first thing I noticed about the guide were the first about 60 pages of the guide are dedicated to a few of the miscellaneous things. The game basics and such. This may not seem like much but the guide explains the basics of the game a lot more clearly than the instruction booklet does.
Character profiles are great. They tell you when characters learn techs in an easy to use chart and they also give a small bio for them without spoiling what their main role is in the quest!
An weapon/armor/item list is availible. Easy to use table that tells you what you should buy and what you probably shouldn't. We all know that in Xenosaga you could spend quite a bit of money and you don't get much. This guide will help you save your money.
A.G.W.S data for them all. This also suggest what you should and shouldn't buy for them, as well as who should pilot them and what attacks you should focus on using.
The walkthrough was perhaps the most helpful part of this guide. This is where a couple of my small gripes come in but believe me they're very small. The walkthrough is easy to use and here's a nice thing to do in using this guide, while a movie scene from the game is playing take the time to read the guide. You'll notice that a lot of the info is extremely helpful.
Most noticeable are the boss strategies. These are VERY helpful strategies but this is where my first gripe with the guide comes in. The boss strategies are extremely helpful on offense. It's great to know what you can do to the boss but it would also be nice if they told me what the boss could do to me in return. Other than that these strategies are unbeatable.
Before you begin each section you'll see a list of enemies, maps with a very handy key, and a step-by-step objective and items list. VERY helpful walkthrough.
My second gripe is minor depending on how you use the guide. The screenshots aren't always clear. Some are rather fuzzy (the smaller ones). It's also nice that with each new area you come to there are mini-bios for the characters who you'll meet there. So the guide is very imformative. The best part? The guide has NO spoilers to the amazing story that unfolds!
Now for those mini-games, side-quests and secrets. The guide will help you to understand the mini-games and play them to success. If you're like me you don't play mini-games much. The guide also covers just about every secret and sidequests there is, again it doesn't spoil the plot.
Clearly this is an extremely helpful guide. You'll love the guide. It's great to use for the game. Just remember that you won't know what to expect from EVERY boss (there's one that can kill you in one hit and the guide WON'T point it out).
Rating: 5
Summary: Major Help!
Comment: This book is a major help! Already played the game once through eithout the book, now replaying with book and am having ALOT less trouble mainly in the Cash, A.G.W.S., and other quests. Well writen and has practicly no spoilers.
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Title:Xenosaga ASIN: B00005BW7Q Publisher: Namco Pub. Date: 28 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $19.99 |
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Title: Final Fantasy X-2 Official Strategy Guide by Dan Birlew ISBN: 0744002850 Publisher: Brady Games Pub. Date: 15 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Final Fantasy X Official Strategy Guide by Dan Birlew ISBN: 0744001404 Publisher: Brady Games Pub. Date: 17 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: .hack Official Strategy Guide by Doug Walsh, Dan Birlew ISBN: 0744002044 Publisher: Brady Games Pub. Date: 06 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Kingdom Hearts Official Strategy Guide by Dan Birlew ISBN: 0744001986 Publisher: Brady Games Pub. Date: 11 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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