Rating: 
Summary: Good Guide But Mistakes Were Made
Review: Overall this is a good guide for Golden Sun 1 & 2. I got stuck because I would only pay half attention to what people were saying. This guide would fill in the blanks by then telling me where I would need to go. I found it easy to get lost before I got this guide, it is easy to deviate from where you are supposed to go if you don't pay attention, or sometimes even if you do. The guide has typos, and can be choppy at times, but overall it's a decent walkthrough and if you follow it you will get all the Djinn as well as you shouldn't get lost.
Pros
+Good walkthrough
+Great Maps
+Maps are labeled with item locations
+Helps with puzzles
+Shows you how to get every Djinn
+Has you pick up useful psyenergy when you get to a location so you don't have to back track
+Doesn't expect you to remember key events and will remind you later in the game when you can access other areas
+Covers two games
+Psyenergy List
+Djinn List
+Item Chart
+Weapon/Armor Chart
+Character Classes Charts
+A list of field psyenergies at the begging of the guide
Cons
-Choppy (rare)
-Typos (uncommon)
-Some of the information is inaccurate (rare)
-Some screenshots may be misleading (rare)
-Provides you with a map that you must navigate on your own (Common)
-Doesn't hold your hand as you go through the dungeons (it does give you the answers to puzzles though)
-No bestiary (I didn't find it necessary)
I felt that people were too harsh on this guide. Occasionally you will get stuck in a dungeon, and you'll need to take a few deep breaths, pause the game, and use the maps to find the solution. If you are stuck on the game and need help or are going to buy Golden Sun and think you'll need help pick this guide up. I thought it was a good guide, but it needed to be proof read about two more times. The down side that affected me was that the walkthroughs didn't hold my hand as I go through the whole dungeons, just the parts they deemed difficult.
Rating: 
Summary: Not bad although not the best either (3.5 Stars)
Review: Sure this is a great guide and its at a great bargain (2 guides for the price of one!) but is it worth it? Well, in a sort of sense yes and in a sort of sense no. This is a nice guide but for Golden Sun: The Lost Age, NOT for the first one. The section for the second one has a much more detailed walkthough and even has lots of items list and such which ultimately could be used for the first one just fine. What the problem with this guide is: it doesn't cover class changes all that well. While the boss strategies and stats are good, they could've had something to recommend who we put Djinn on and what Djinn to put on. Instead its all about the walkthroughs. The first Golden Sun section also has no secrets! They don't cover the Crossbone Island optional dungeon and they also don't tell you how to get all the Djinn. But in both sections they have nice detailed maps and if you've seen other RPG guides by Prima you'll know that they don't come up in a Prima RPG guide that often. Its very well written and well in-depth but for the second section only. My advice is to go out and buy the official Golden Sun: The Lost Age guide by Nintendo Power its far more detailed and helpful. As for the first one I'd have to agree to go to Gamefaqs.com.
Rating: 
Summary: Really usefull
Review: This book helped and still helps me while playing golden sun. It is definately worth buying. 2 thumbs up!!!
Rating:
Summary: Okay...
Review: This guide will help you for both of the games, and is a great deal. Unfortunely, some parts of the game it does not go into enough detail to help. All in all, an average guide.
Rating: 
Summary: Totally awful!
Review: This has got to be one of the worst strategy guides I have bought in my life! Essentially, the guide is very unclear when it tries to tell you where to go... the author(s) lose you so quickly its not even funny! I found myself getting lost very easily in the game, (and they call this a STRATEGY GUIDE!) For example, if you were in a cave, with many different screen shots that you will be walking through, they will tell you, "enter the cave and go to the fountain." Well, in that specific screen you are in currently, there is no fountain, and then you find out after walking through the cave in an endless search for that damn fountain that was SUPPOSED to be in the first screen shot after entering, it was, in fact, 4 screen shots away. It was extremely choppy like that, like the writer(s) just expected you to know exactly HOW you get to the fountain - Well, isn't that why I bought the guide in the first place? To be told these things? It was mostly like that in the guide for Golden Sun, (first of the guidebook), but when it got into Golden Sun: The Lost Age strategy guide, they got a little bit more descriptive, but not by much. I will say that this strategy guide was useful for discovering where you need to go next, and for finding items and occationally helped to find Djinn - otherwise, I wouldn't recommend it. I was vastly disappointed in Prima, because I have bought quite a few strategy game guides for them and they have had absolutely EXCELLENT guides... until this one. I believe it was a total misuse of $15 (I bought it at Borders), and it should be priced at only $7 considering how bad it is. I am beginning to think that the publishers just don't care anymore about what they are throwing out to the public... we rely on them to help us through the game when we get lost, not confuse us anymore than we are/ were.
Rating:
Summary: Totally awful!
Review: This has got to be one of the worst strategy guides I have bought in my life! Essentially, the guide is very unclear when it tries to tell you where to go... the author(s) lose you so quickly its not even funny! I found myself getting lost very easily in the game, (and they call this a STRATEGY GUIDE!) For example, if you were in a cave, with many different screen shots that you will be walking through, they will tell you, "enter the cave and go to the fountain." Well, in that specific screen you are in currently, there is no fountain, and then you find out after walking through the cave in an endless search for that damn fountain that was SUPPOSED to be in the first screen shot after entering, it was, in fact, 4 screen shots away. It was extremely choppy like that, like the writer(s) just expected you to know exactly HOW you get to the fountain - Well, isn't that why I bought the guide in the first place? To be told these things? It was mostly like that in the guide for Golden Sun, (first of the guidebook), but when it got into Golden Sun: The Lost Age strategy guide, they got a little bit more descriptive, but not by much. I will say that this strategy guide was useful for discovering where you need to go next, and for finding items and occationally helped to find Djinn - otherwise, I wouldn't recommend it. I was vastly disappointed in Prima, because I have bought quite a few strategy game guides for them and they have had absolutely EXCELLENT guides... until this one. I believe it was a total misuse of $15 (I bought it at Borders), and it should be priced at only $7 considering how bad it is. I am beginning to think that the publishers just don't care anymore about what they are throwing out to the public... we rely on them to help us through the game when we get lost, not confuse us anymore than we are/ were.
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