Rating:  Summary: Prima strikes again... Review: Well, Prima isn't exactly known for great strategy guides (Look at Castlevania, or more recently, the godawful Grandia guide). Once in a while, however, they make something truly special (Final Fantasy Tactics). This one falls in between the two extremes. It's a great book, gives all the information you can handle, all of the items, weapons, ammo, herbs, etc. However, once again Prima also gives you the script for the game within the walkthrough. If you don't want the story spoiled for you, do -not- buy this book! Do not even look at it in the store! Prima needs to learn how to make a walkthrough without a script. It is the job of the game developers to create and tell the story.. not Prima. Get it in gear guys!
Rating:  Summary: Prima strikes again... Review: Well, Prima isn't exactly known for great strategy guides (Look at Castlevania, or more recently, the godawful Grandia guide). Once in a while, however, they make something truly special (Final Fantasy Tactics). This one falls in between the two extremes. It's a great book, gives all the information you can handle, all of the items, weapons, ammo, herbs, etc. However, once again Prima also gives you the script for the game within the walkthrough. If you don't want the story spoiled for you, do -not- buy this book! Do not even look at it in the store! Prima needs to learn how to make a walkthrough without a script. It is the job of the game developers to create and tell the story.. not Prima. Get it in gear guys!
Rating:  Summary: Quite a well done guide Review: Well, Prima's known for good strategy guides, and they deliver quite nicely here. There are complete items charts with where to get them, where to use them, and a brief description of them. There are detailed enemy bios as well as weapon stats. The guide is very thorough in the walkthrough and even covers the battle game in great detail. If it wasn't for this guide, I would never have found the submachine guns and some of the other more well hidden items. A great buy and well worth the price.
Rating:  Summary: Hmmm good for Jill but does Chris even exist? Review: Whatever this guide is missing I can guarantee BradyGAMES has got it, and whatever this guide has good of Bradygames don't got.To start the guide is a fairly good lentgh. But it would've been nice to have a seperate walkthrough of Chris as you have to find it out as you read. The items list and such is great! The strategies for defeating enemies are great and they actually tell you how to CONSERVE your ammo unlike the BradyGAMES guide. The walkthrough however can be very confusing at times, but how much is packed onto one page is incredible. Some of the screens are in the wrong place (but they are EXTREMELY good at explaining what to do you don't need any screens really). But as I mentioned earlier the guide completely leaves out chris. But the maps are beautiful. The guide is so detailed and precise. The sealed secrets sectio is also impressive. But the fact that it spoils the ending made this guide lose a star, but I didn't have to heat to hold it against them since it was in the SEALED SECRETS section. Puzzle solutions are also brilliant, and they have great suggestions on what to do with certain items. The guide is better than I thought it would be as I was disappointed with some of the others, but the guide is by far the better pick out of the two. OVERALL: Positive +AMAZING MAPS +VERY GOOD PUZZLE SOLUTIONS +Actually tells you the difference between game modes +Very in depth on secrets +Good weapon strategies +Is mor focused on conserving ammo +Tells you how to get all six different endings! Negative -Where the hell is Chris? Small call outs to his game but not good enough -A little bit disorganized but still readable -Spoils the endings
Rating:  Summary: Hmmm good for Jill but does Chris even exist? Review: Whatever this guide is missing I can guarantee BradyGAMES has got it, and whatever this guide has good of Bradygames don't got. To start the guide is a fairly good lentgh. But it would've been nice to have a seperate walkthrough of Chris as you have to find it out as you read. The items list and such is great! The strategies for defeating enemies are great and they actually tell you how to CONSERVE your ammo unlike the BradyGAMES guide. The walkthrough however can be very confusing at times, but how much is packed onto one page is incredible. Some of the screens are in the wrong place (but they are EXTREMELY good at explaining what to do you don't need any screens really). But as I mentioned earlier the guide completely leaves out chris. But the maps are beautiful. The guide is so detailed and precise. The sealed secrets sectio is also impressive. But the fact that it spoils the ending made this guide lose a star, but I didn't have to heat to hold it against them since it was in the SEALED SECRETS section. Puzzle solutions are also brilliant, and they have great suggestions on what to do with certain items. The guide is better than I thought it would be as I was disappointed with some of the others, but the guide is by far the better pick out of the two. OVERALL: Positive +AMAZING MAPS +VERY GOOD PUZZLE SOLUTIONS +Actually tells you the difference between game modes +Very in depth on secrets +Good weapon strategies +Is mor focused on conserving ammo +Tells you how to get all six different endings! Negative -Where the hell is Chris? Small call outs to his game but not good enough -A little bit disorganized but still readable -Spoils the endings
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