Final Fantasy VIII Official Strategy Guide

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Summary: Absolutely Dreadful!
Review: Out of all of the strategy guides I've read, this is hands down the worst! The book is organized in such a way as to make it almost impossible to find anything when you need it. The boss strategies were not very enlightening either. I highly reccomend that you either find a walkthrough on the web or find a guide that is not put out by BradyGames.

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Summary: A die hard Final Fantasy Player
Review: This book is alright. As said above by many people, the layout kinda sucks. Everyone also says to print out the online walkthrough. First, if you want color, the printing will take you days. Second, online walkthroughs are like what, 200 pages? If it costs even 1 cent per page, thats 2 bucks, and it's going to be hard to staple or put into a book. Also, you might want to have a couple of spare ink cartiges available. Anyways, get the book, because it helps.

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Summary: An excellent book
Review: It is one of the best guide books for one of the best games ever. All the info you would ever need.

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Summary: Nothing much
Review: Hey! I could complete the game without the guidebook ya know

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Summary: all u need 2 know
Review: it had everything to help with the game without making it to easy

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Summary: Kickin'
Review: This is an awesome strategy guide for an awesome game but at times it is wrong, but i would deffinitly recommend this if you need help with one of the best rpg's ever Final Fantasy 8

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Summary: Very good, but needs work
Review: They dont ad enough detail, for example it tells you to go from one place to another but doesnt tell you how to get there so you end up getting lost!!!!!! it happened to me a few times. :)

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Summary: You'd be better off with a walkthrough from the web.
Review: A truly disappointing attempt at a complete guide. This book, in its attempt to protect the casual reader from spoilers has left out the entire last dungeon's walk through and a complete lack of strategy on the boss. This guide leaves the reader/player with more questions than answers and leaves out a fairly critical technique to make the game's summoned monsters more effective (how hard is it to write "Hold select and hit square?). Wait for the Unofficial guide, or even better: Get a walkthrough for free from the web.

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Summary: Pathetic Excuse for a Strategy Guide, Save your money
Review: All in all, this Guide is probably the worst one I have ever used. Cassady really should have played the game himself and not listened to gamers that work for BradyGames. The Maps are in the back of the book, to start with this is truly a headache. The book was written so as to not spoil the plot, but you can read it and know how the plot is laid out, and specifics. The biggest flaw is that Cassady didn't give thourough advice on how to beat the harder characters. (I.E.-read the walkthrough on Diablos, it doesn't give a clear picture on what you are to do, and dont even bother using the guide on the higher level characters, its just plain useless.) So in summary, save your money for the next final fantasy game and print out an on-line walkthrough instead.

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Summary: Don't waste your money.
Review: When it comes to strategy guides, Brady knows nothing. Nothing. Oh, they also know nothing. I no doubt much prefer Kao Megura's strategy guide when he gets it written. Terrible maps. Some fool decided to put them in back. Even worse, some more foolish fool didn't number the pages. In many places they gave many spoilers (which I don't mind, actually, but in other places the lack of them left you hanging. This book is a perfect example of what happens when a fool gets bored. Didn't they test it? How could they have been so blind. This is how it goes. I'm reading and it says "Refer to map". What the hell? Which map? Where is this map?. I do find it after a while (all the maps _are_ there, 1 point for the away team), but(should I be suprised?) there are huge dots on this fuzzy, small map.