Rating: 
Summary: 'Black and White strat. guide', godly or hellish?
Review: This strategy guide is useful more for the every-now-and-then gamer than the hardcore one like myself. It has clean cut and usefully headed chapters on some aspects of the game and one chapter for each level, with brief help for every challenge you will encounter. One thing I noticed early on was that most of the information could be found else-where, in the game manual or on the in-game help signs liberally distributed around the landscape. Not much was from Prima actually thinking up their own techniques or tricks. In all fairness, Lionhead had already done so much to help you and so maybe it was a struggle for Prima to find any original material. For example, in Land 3 there is a challenge where you must follow a sneaky Guri-type around the Mountain he lives on to his secret meditation spot. If he sees you he will stop and you will have to start again. At one point he turns round very quickly and I often got caught. Prima's suggestion: Turn around as he does. Yes, I could have worked that out myself! The problem is doing it quick enough. I found out later how to solve this puzzle, but this was not in the guide. In conclusion; A skimpy, half a piece of celery for lunch, guide with hardly any original help. Not worth the money unless your really desperate, but good however if you are new to games of this type and need waterwings to coax you along. Recommended only for more inexperianced players.
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