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Summary: Bad even for a Bradygames guide
Review: And those are usually known for making Gampro articles look good by comparison. This, however, hits new lows. If I'd wanted to pay 13 dollars for an advertisement for a slow (even on my cable modem) website that still doesn't cover all the information on the game, I would be happy with this. As it is, I'm checking faqs posted on Gamefaqs.com to find secrets on my second trip through the game. The art isn't even that good in most of the book, they use the same renders of the characters on literally almost every page. A few pages use some nice preliminary art, but nothing you can't find in the art book. Save your money and go to Gamefaqs, and buy the "Art of Final Fantasy IX" book if you want the art. Avoid this insulting pile of tripe like the plague.
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Summary: Hey I didn't know
Review: I was ashamed when i started using this guide. Who ever thought of the playonline thing is crazy. Thiis strategy guide is barley detailed. It just relies on going on the internet to find something!!! Here an example:the guide says search the area to find a very impotant item, to find and figure out what the item does go to playonline.com. I mean who wants to go on the internet when there sittin down playin there game. And the secrets sections are terrible. example: go to the town on disc three to get a new weapon this is very complicated so go to playonline.com. This strategy guide is terrible. The least i can say is you can get it just to move forward in the game but for anything else use it as toleit paper.
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Summary: What a ripoff...
Review: This is a horrible book! When I'm playing my game and I have a question about something, I don't want to have to go online and find the answers...I just want to be able to open my strategy guide and find it. But the way this thing is set up, I've only been given half the info and less. Most of the info is extremely vague and it is needed to go online to get ANY help. Plus, the website is incomplete and it goes down a lot. So I'm waiting for a COMPLETE unofficial strategy guide...
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Summary: Basically Useless (except for fuelling fires)
Review: I feel obligated to tell all of those considering this book that it is absolutely NOT worth it. In fact, I think that BradyGames should pay US for putting up with this trash. I don't know who thought up this Playonline deal, but they should probably be hung. For those who don't know what this is, allow me to explain. On the margins of the pages, there are often little blue boxes that tell you to go to playonline to find out more about that particular situation. You are given a keyword that, when entered, will bring you directly to the information you're looking for. I'll explain why this doesn't work for me. I play FFIX in our basement, and our computer is on the 2nd floor. That means that every time I want to know more, I have to either write down the keywords or take the book with me, get up from my nice warm chair, pause the game, walk up two flights of stairs, turn on my computer (takes a few minutes), go to the site, and enter the keyword. I am then presented with a little box of information that could have easily been shoved into the strategy guide if they hadn't used the margins for the pretty blue boxes. The reason I like strategy guides is because they're supposed to tell you those secrets that allow you to maximize your experience, not just walk you through. So, folks, unless you're just looking for a basic walkthrough with nice pages and pretty pictures, stay away from this. It would be more helpful and economical to print off a twenty page walkthrough from gamefaqs.com.
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Summary: Really bad guide for a really good game.
Review: I bought this in hopes it would be like the Brady Games guide to FF8. Well its not. Like everone else said, its just a big plug for their website. I wish all guides could be like the versus books guide to FF7. Thats the best guide I have ever seen. All other guides should be molded after that one. Save yourself money and time by going to IGN's or Playonlines guide cause thats what your going to be doing anyway.
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Summary: I expected much more...
Review: I would like to say first and foremost that a great effort was put out to make this guide, I am sure, but it was just not up to par. I felt like I paid for two things- one, a very brief and vague strategy guide, and two, a set of passcodes to a website. What really made me upset was that I found you didn't really even need the guide for the website- all you need to do is register, sign in, and self navigate, even without the passcodes. I really felt betrayed by Brady- my last two guides, Final Fantasy VII and Vagrant Story, were wonderfully detailed- covering every corner of the game-and then some- without spoilers. Although the Final Fantasy IX guide has no spoilers, I still was very dissatisfied with this book. Bottom line- you can use different websites and get better information than this guide or the playonline.com site combined. If this trend of strategy guides continues, perhaps I'll buy Prima next time.
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Summary: it helped
Review: I bought this book because I needed help with the game. But it helped. I thought there to many "go to www.playonline.com for more info" I mean we bought the strdagy give us everything that is on the site too.
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Summary: Um.
Review: If you're one of the millions of final fantasy fans, you'll probably get stuck. I know I have. This book will help, but if you have the internet, it's not worth thirteen bucks.With Squaresoft's new playonline.com, you can find every single tidbit of help online. And it's free. Sure, the website says "use passwords from the books to get the most out of your game", yada yada yada. If you dig, you can find the passwords right there on the site. THe only thing the book has that the website doesn't is the trading cards. Save yourself time and money. Don't buy this book.
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Summary: Is Squaresoft in league with ISP's?
Review: This strategy is very helpful.......as long as you have a computer right beside you when you are playing the game. Almost every page has a "code" for Squares website Playonline so that if you want to more than the paperback provides you must get online and find it. This wouldn't even be so bad but when you enter the code the whole guide shows up rather than just the tip you are looking for. If you are like me and don't wnat to have to get up every ten minutes of gameplay and have to get online you would attempt to print this information so that you have it in the books when you are playing btu the layout of the site even makes this difficult because of the mass of info that appears when you enter the code. I am just hopeful that when Final Fantasy X comes out that they have decided to go back to the style of guide used for Final Fantasy VII. The style that makes it worth buying the book.
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Summary: Bad Strategy Guide
Review: This book would be a waste of your money to purchase. Throughout the book, there are a few small tidbits of information and following everything it says, "If you want more information, go to our website and enter code ..." In essence, the strategy guide is a link to get people to go to their website playonline.com. This book was a big disappointment to Brady strategy guides.
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