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Title: Official Xenogears Strategy Guide (Bradygames Strategy Guides) by Ronald Wartow ISBN: 1-56686-825-4 Publisher: Bradygames Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.96 (47 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good, but...
Comment: A good book for a great game. I can't recommend the game enough, really. The strategy guide is definitely good at telling you where to go and everything, but it needed full color maps so you could find the treasure more easily. Also, there are tons of story spoilers not in the text but in the pictures of the game (there are even spoilers on the back cover!) So, if you have already beaten this game I would suggest getting this guide just for the item, enemy and weapon charts as well as treasure lists but if you don't want the story spoiled for you and want some fun your first time through, don't get it.
Rating: 2
Summary: Amazing game, shame about the guide...
Comment: I think it's agreed by all that Xenogears is one of the best RPG produced. It's a pity then that the strategy guide doesn't live up to that reputation.
Although I did find it useful in places, the fact that parts of the walkthrough is completely wrong and some secrets were missed out didn't help.
From a design point of view, the book is terrible. Empty white spaces made me thnk the book was being padded to fill pages and there is a general lack of artwork from the game. It's a shame as the publisher is usually excellent at producing strategy guides (Parasite Eve & FF VII).
Buy the book if you really are stuck. Otherwise there's always the internet...
Rating: 3
Summary: It isn't the worst at least
Comment: I'm probably the only one here who is going write a review bashing on this guide for it's quality. I don't mind the plot spoilers in the guide because...well it's a guide. Every guide has spoilers (and yes I actually DID get my hands on an FFVII guide by VERSUS BOOKS so don't tell me "well you should see THAT guide" I KNOW, but even that one had a few spoilers...just not plot spoilers).
A guide is meant to do just that guide you. The reason I gave it a three was because the guide misses a lot of secrets, the bestiary lacks and there are no maps in the walkthrough.
Let me start off by saying this, at least we can all agree on this, Maps are ESSENTIAL to a strategy guide and ESPECIALLY RPG guides. That goes without saying and for that I couldn't let the guide come within a mile of five stars. Second, a guide should NEVER spoil the ending. Plot I'm okay with but the ending is the whole reason you play a game in the first place. Sure it's no fun when you know the plot but if you know how the game ends then that just plain stinks! So I don't mind the plot spoilers but the fact of the ending being spoiled really made me mad.
The walkthrough is dim too. The screens are blurry and out of context and the content that the guide contains is not always clear. The directions they give you in dungeons are only going to help you in getting lost. The bestiary doesn't detail a monsters weakness instead the only good thing we really get is how much HP they have.
So in short, the guide isn't the best buy for you. It has a complete walkthrough and it actually isn't all that bad. Boss strategies are nice and you get the general idea of what they're telling you to do. But again, I didn't give this guide a considerably low score for the plot spoilers. I never actually even read the plot spoilers since I was using the guide as a reference book and not a magazine.
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Title:Xenogears ASIN: B000038IFX Publisher: Electronic Arts Pub. Date: 16 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $24.90 |
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Title: Final Fantasy Chronicles Official Strategy Guide by Dan Birlew ISBN: 0744000734 Publisher: Brady Games Pub. Date: 02 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Xenosaga Official Strategy Guide by Dan Birlew, Bradygames, Laura M. Parkinson ISBN: 0744002397 Publisher: Bradygames Pub. Date: 21 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Final Fantasy Anthology: Official Strategy Guide (Brady Games) by David Cassady ISBN: 1566869250 Publisher: BradyGames Pub. Date: 13 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Chrono Cross Official Strategy Guide by Dan Birlew, Ken Schmidt ISBN: 0744000009 Publisher: Bradygames Pub. Date: 18 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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