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Summary: one more book like this, Brady Game will go out of business!
Review: What are these people with Brady Game thinking? Writing a strategy guide with absolutely no help to gamers?! Are they out of their minds?
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Summary: Awful...
Review: Take it from me, i've purchased many guides to enhance my gaming experience, from ff7 to ff8 to chrono cross to mario rpg to chrono trigger, and everything in between, but after only playing the game for 2 hours, i realize, this is BY FAR THE WORST GUIDE EVER. There is a reason everyone rated this 1 star, because its NOT helpful, the author ommited all important information from the guide, and instead makes you go online and search for it. I mean really come on, we buy guides so we can get help, not be sent on a wild goose chase. IN all honesty im not going to use the guide for the rest of the game, it totally detracts from the fun of playing an RPG, how this became the official RPG guide for ff9 is a mystery, i guess square can make some mistakes...
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Summary: Worst strategy guide in History!!!
Review: I bought this guide more for the reason of owning everything that has to do with the Final Fantasy series. Sure I looked through it like I do all of the guides I have, and this new PLAYONLINE feature is a definite turnoff. Instead of being helpful, it is detrimental to completing every quest in the game. why buy the guide at alll, might as well wait until the versus guide comes out or just print it all on-line. Believe me when I say, this was a huge disappointment and I hope this new author of the strategy guides gets fired.
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Summary: Worst game guide ever.
Review: I bought this guide thinking it would shed some light on some of the side quests, but I was wrong. The only things in this guide are the things that you should not need any help with, and whenever there is something intresting they give you a little note and say "For more info check out www.playonline.com." I am sorry but I didn't buy a guide so that I have to log on to the net every time I want to know something. I live in Taiwan so I bought this book with out seeing first, if I had been able to see it, I would never have bought it.
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Summary: Yuck!
Review: This is the worst guide I have ever come across. It may help you get through the game, but when you get to things you really need information or help on, it tells you to go to PlayOnline.com. You basically need to be sitting next your computer when you play this game so you can stop every five seconds and go online. It is one of the stupidest things I have seen. I would not recommend this to anyone. Your best bet, is to go online to and print out the walkthrough there. At least it includes everything you want to know.
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Summary: Gorgeous, Thorough and Annoying
Review: Strategy guides have to walk a fine line. We want them to help us make sure we get the most from our gaming experience (I certainly don't have the time to play a game like FFIX more than once, so I want to squeeze everything out of it the first - and only - time I play it) but we don't want them to tell us so much that the experience of playing the game becomes a boring, rote exercise in walking off the instructions in the book.In this respect, the last few FF games have come with terrific guides, and this one is no exception. The guide does a fine job of balancing letting the reader know what to do with not spoiling what's going to happen. Unfortunately, the PlayOnline model is easily the most annoying "innovation" I have yet to come across in a strategy guide. I'm sure it seemed like a good idea when someone suggested it during the book's production, but I am sick to death of having to get up from my chair and walk to my computer (in another room, and which I must leave logged on whenever I play) every time something important is coming up because the crucial detail I need to maximize my gameplay is always on the web site. Furthermore, the side quests are not in the book and the book is far less useful than it's predecessor at letting me know when I should (or must) do them. The bestiary and walkthroughs (including the web portions) are marvelous and thorough. The images and layout are gorgeous. The balance between spoiling the plot and assisting the reader in making the most of the game is all but perfect. But I have come to well and truly hate this book because the PlayOnline component is so utterly annoying. Buy it if you need a guide (and you do). Just make sure to let the publishers know that we really hope they just put all the stuff we need between the pages of the guide for FFX.
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Summary: All these other reviews have been my recovery therapy...
Review: Needless to say I was rather depressed and more than a little angry with my purchase, so I went to see what everyone else thought of it here. Thankfully, you all hated it as much as I did, which has saved some part of a day I had rued. Thanks all for your entertaining and small attempts to describe how horrible this guide is.. even though I'm pretty certain the worthlessness of this book is beyond description....
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Summary: Unbelievably horrible and useless...
Review: Some people give all strategy guides low marks because they expect the guide to walk the impossibly thin line between giving helpful information and not revealing spoilers. I am not such a person. In fact, I would give every strategy guide I've ever used 4 or 5 stars...until now. As others have said, this guide doesn't actually reveal any useful information. It is almost as though they got a person who was not especially tenacious to play through the game without any help and write summaries of what happened and then added some graphics and put it on glossy paper. Then they took this summary, added a few vague bits about secrets and side quests, and added it to PlayOnline.com. Yes, the entire strategy guide is right there online for free. I paid for the incomplete strategy guide, but the complete version is out there FOR FREE. (Not that the complete version is much better, mind you, but it still angers me). I don't have a printer, and I highly resent being forced to run back and forth between my living room TV and my bedroom computer to try to find useful information, only to be disappointed time and time again. The most useful page in the whole book is the map on the very last page, and even it does not list the locations of chocographs, the dead pepper treasures, or the five possible locations for Chocobo's Garden. Squaresoft, PLEASE DROP THIS FORMAT. And please take the time to do it right next time.
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Summary: This is the worst strategy guide ever
Review: This strategy guide provided the least amount of information for the money. I was so tired of running back and forth to the website (which did not even have the decency to be a good website). The website also wouldn't work with my printer, which meant any information that I obtained had to be copied and pasted to another application before I could print it. A major headache. I think the reason anyone buys a guide is to get the secrets of the game. If I wanted to work for the secrets, I'd have saved my money and figured them out myself. I can't get my money back, but I can warn others about this ...sorry strategy guide. I only hope that this experiment will never be repeated. Next time squaresoft comes out with a guide, I'll open and inspect it first.
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Summary: Worst strategy guide ever.
Review: This guide tells you absolutely nothing you couldn't figure out on your own. All this thing says is "Want to know more? Go to Playonline.com!" Why not just go to Playonline.com for free? This thing is garbage. My dog is a better strategy guide than this.
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