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Summary: doesn't cover all 100% of the game.
Review: This guide doesn't cover all 100% of the game, so you won't be able to see the final ending. There is alot missing, But if you want to just blow through the game, the guide if fine. (The game is kinda hard if you don't do all the optional "monster" missions, they train your people alot. So i recomend doing all of the game, or it's too short.)
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Summary: Thank You
Review: This guide is great. It tells you where all the garment grids are, where and how to play minigames(including blitzball). It also tells you the way to beat the game 100%. YOU NEED THIS FINAL FANTASY X-2 STRATEGY GUIDE WRITTEN BY DAN BIRLEW.
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Summary: Hmmm.....
Review: This guide is pretty helpful, for the most part. The pictures are pretty nice and I like the extended coverage for the abilities of the dresspheres and Garment Grids. I'm in Chapter Four right now, and I have 70% completion. If I didn't have this guide, I would have about 50% completion. I'm trying right now to get at least 90% completion so when I press X at Farplane Glen, I can get the Happy Ending.As usual, there is the usual typos and misleading info. For example, at the scene when Yuna accidentally drops into the Farplane from Djose Temple, it says "When Yuna says, 'I'm all alone, press X to hear a familiar whistle." I forgot to press X and Tidus just whistled to me automatically. The guide says to press X four times for it to end, and I did-but no whistle. Also, on finding the Nine Gatekeepers, the third cacutar is in a chest in Ormi's room. But the first cacutar chart in Chapter 3 says the third cacutar is in the chamber where you fought the Leblanc Syndicate. Hmm...... I've memorized most of the strategy guide so I don't go page flipping often. But still, don't burn this book. It is worth the twenty dollars. :-)
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Summary: Yeah....
Review: This guide was really hard to follow, but I suppose that would be expected since there are many things to do in the game in no particular order. But still...this is pretty terrible. There is a lot of crucial information that is left out of this guide. Of course, if you were to go online for a walkthrough, there would be things left out or incorret. However, getting a guide online would be free. Really, don't bother with this, unless you have the money to spare. The pictures and presentation are pretty, but that's about it.\
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Summary: Over Engineered
Review: This is one of the most exhaustive guides I've seen. No doubt the occasion for this is the sheer size of the game. For the most part it does a good job of documenting the nooks and crannies of the game and providing a line of play that will maximize the completeness score (which affects the precise version of the ending you will see and very little else). It is heavily illustrated - mostly with pictures of Yuna, Rikku, and Payne - and comes as close to making sense of the complicated dress sphere based magic system as anything I've seen. For all this, and there is even more, I feel the guide is flawed. There are a small number of glaring mistakes that might be due to a difference between the Japanese and US versions of the game, or might just be mistakes. And there are one or two glaring omissions. The largest omission being the scant attention given to the 100 level dungeon that becomes available late in the game. I understand the woes and pressures of publication, and honestly wouldn't have let these issues bother me. There is a deeper problem with the guide that I think is its major flaw. I use strategy guides in a 'use as I go' pattern. If something puzzles me or seems over my head, I look it up. What I would never do is study the entire guide, take notes, and develop a preplanned attack. I prefer to interact spontaneously whenever possible. This guide is more of a textbook than a strategy guide. If you use it as I would, there is real danger that you will miss a subtlety or an order of play, only to find out about it 50 pages later. Of course, the other side of the coin is that, without the guide, you would have made even worse mistakes. So while I'm willing to deduct a star for ease of use, it still it the best assistant available for what is an incredible game.
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Summary: Soooooo helpful
Review: This was so incredibly nice to have. I got to the very end of this game and had no idea how to beat it, so my sister and I went out and bought the guide. We started a new game and used the walkthrough inside it. It shows you step by step how to complete every quest and side quest, where to find all of the dress spheres, and about everything you could possibly need to know. Also, it doesnt give any spoilers, so you are safe there. It tells about all the charators, weapons, and boss's as well. This can be a really confusing game so I you should definatly BUY THIS GUIDE NOW!!!
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Summary: pretty good
Review: This will get you through the main, surface of the game. It has a bad habit of telling you things like "If you looked through the sphere recorder during all these chapters, then you could get these 5 rare coins." Well, telling me that during the last chapter walkthrough is no help. There are numerous typos in the fiend guide, and little information about how exactly to gain AP, among other things. It doesn't have a master list of where to get dressspheres or garment grids either, and there is little to no information about the Via Infinito, the super-hard optional area, which is hardest to beat.
It's nice looking, and well layed out, but you could get all the information and more from any website.
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Summary: We Suspect Strategy Guide Publishers Just Doesn't Care.
Review: We (my husband & I) suspect strategy guide publishers just don't care. Time after time we have used strategy guides from Brady Games and Prima Games, and, each time, found dozens of mistakes - some of them very crucial. This guide is no exception. Unfortunately, it's the only option if you want a printed guide, so either you buy this one, or you have to work with what's available online (which is often faulty as well). All we ask is that somebody who works for these publishers use the guide to play through the game before it goes to press, to check for mistakes. That's all! The mistakes in the guides are so obvious going through and playing these games, it would seem impossible they could be missed if someone just took the time to check them out first. But enough of that rant. I'm sure you want some specifics. This guide has some helpful maps and pictures, which is a plus. But often the information it provides isn't specific enough. It tells you to find a particular person in an area, but it doesn't tell you exactly where that person is. It tells you to find treasures in an area, and sometimes it won't tell you where specifically those treasures are. And the worst bit is that it has two checklists of things to do to gain 100% completion in the game (which is required to get the "perfect" ending), and the two checklists conflict! We had to start the game all over because the checklist in the back of the book listed something we should've done in the game's Chapter 1, but that action wasn't listed in the main walkthrough. And now that we're into Chapter 5 of the game, we're finding tons of instances where it says, "If you've spoken to so-and-so once each chapter, now so-and-so will give you this really cool item," and it hasn't mentioned this at all up until this point! What good is a walkthrough if it expects you to read and memorize the entire book before you begin? It's quite frustrating. I tell you this as a warning - because there is no other choice. This is the only published walkthrough out there for this game, so if you want a walkthrough, you might as well buy it. Just don't expect it to be as helpful as you'd like. And expect to get really irked with it. A lot.
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Summary: We Suspect Strategy Guide Publishers Just Doesn't Care.
Review: We (my husband & I) suspect strategy guide publishers just don't care. Time after time we have used strategy guides from Brady Games and Prima Games, and, each time, found dozens of mistakes - some of them very crucial. This guide is no exception. Unfortunately, it's the only option if you want a printed guide, so either you buy this one, or you have to work with what's available online (which is often faulty as well). All we ask is that somebody who works for these publishers use the guide to play through the game before it goes to press, to check for mistakes. That's all! The mistakes in the guides are so obvious going through and playing these games, it would seem impossible they could be missed if someone just took the time to check them out first. But enough of that rant. I'm sure you want some specifics. This guide has some helpful maps and pictures, which is a plus. But often the information it provides isn't specific enough. It tells you to find a particular person in an area, but it doesn't tell you exactly where that person is. It tells you to find treasures in an area, and sometimes it won't tell you where specifically those treasures are. And the worst bit is that it has two checklists of things to do to gain 100% completion in the game (which is required to get the "perfect" ending), and the two checklists conflict! We had to start the game all over because the checklist in the back of the book listed something we should've done in the game's Chapter 1, but that action wasn't listed in the main walkthrough. And now that we're into Chapter 5 of the game, we're finding tons of instances where it says, "If you've spoken to so-and-so once each chapter, now so-and-so will give you this really cool item," and it hasn't mentioned this at all up until this point! What good is a walkthrough if it expects you to read and memorize the entire book before you begin? It's quite frustrating. I tell you this as a warning - because there is no other choice. This is the only published walkthrough out there for this game, so if you want a walkthrough, you might as well buy it. Just don't expect it to be as helpful as you'd like. And expect to get really irked with it. A lot.
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Summary: Missing Info.
Review: You'll find using the 100% completion guide in the back the most helpful.
But you won't find how to get all garment grids or the best accessories in the game. And the worst part of this guide is There is absolutely NO INFO on the Bevelle Dungeon, None!
Even if you have this book you'll still find yourself heading to gamefaqs trying to find how to get tips, accessories, and missing garment grids.
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