Welcome to Animal Crossing: Prima's Official Strategy Guide

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Summary: Bad Day for Prima
Review: Although Prima has written many good guides, this is not one of them. It stinks. Descriptions are weak, strategies poor, and instructions difficult to follow.

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Summary: Bad Day for Prima
Review: Although Prima has written many good guides, this is not one of them. It stinks. Descriptions are weak, strategies poor, and instructions difficult to follow.

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Summary: If you are here, you must be crazy
Review: As one said before me, get NP guide for Animal Crossing. Skimming through the catalog is like skimming through the yellow pages, the layout is terrible, and it is not the funnest thing to read. It is not very detailed and does not touch every peice of info, either. I'd have expected better from Prima.

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Summary: Better than Nintendo
Review: Funny - we have both guides for Animal Crossings. Lent them out and the only one we want back is the Prima version.

It may have some errors, but contains information that Nintendo doesn't put in theirs.

For a whole picture of the game, buy them both!

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Summary: why?
Review: I skimmed through it in a store, and I thought to myself, "why would I need a guide to a game that has no plot, where the town itself is made up randomly, and dosen't truely have an end?" Thankfully the voices in my head has no ready reply, but regardless, get the game, not the guide. Great game! Love it! But guide? No.

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Summary: Okay, but Nintendo's Offical Guide is better.
Review: I was fliping through it in a store. It's okay, but it mainly tells you what items are, where to get/find them, and has an inventorylike apperance. Before I left, I also looked at the Nintendo Offical Stratigy Guide. Nintendo's guide tells you about different items and where to find/get them or earn them. It also has a different layout and better info. Like I said it's okay, but Nintendo's is better.

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Summary: Meh, it's not THAT bad...
Review: It's got pictures, which the Nintendo one doesn't. I have both, and use this one when I'm decided whether or not to buy something. This is about the only category it excells in, but its useful in my opinion. Pick it up if you can get it cheap!

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Summary: Nintendo's Official Guide is tons better
Review: The Prima guide has tons of useful information, like how to get certain items and where certain bugs tend to be. The information is accurate for the most part, but it lacks the one thing that is essential for a game like this--pictures of all the items, characters, insects, ect. What I like about the Prima guide is that it goes into more detail about gameplay and has strategies for doing things (such as getting items). Since item collecting is like 99.99% of the game focus, and will be 150% of your obsession, having pictures of all the items is essential and the lack thereof a huge oversight.

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Summary: awful - with many many mistakes
Review: This book is awful. It lists all the items but they are in some kind of mysterious order internal to the game. Want to look up an item you found and you have to scan page after page. It has numerous mistakes, it combines the mossy garden and the backyard theme as if they are one, in it we found the tulip chair listed three times while the daffodil chair and iris chair are missing.
I could go on. It's like they took a dump of one of the games internal files and used whatever awful codes were in there.

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Summary: Nintedo Guide is 10x better
Review: This guide is a waste of money compared to the Nintendo official guide. The Nintendo guide has pictures of everything: furniture, carpets, wallpaper, clothing, fossils, tools, fish, insects, stationary and more. It also is much better organized and has pictures of everything. The Prima guide is hard to read due to it's four colum per page format and the item guide is horrible. The only thing that saves this book are the charts of when to catch bugs and fish, although there are some wrong information and it does not tell where they can be found. Get the Nintendo book if you can, at Kamrt when you buy the game, you get the guide. The Nintendo guide is worth having.