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Summary: Horrid.. absolutely horrid...
Review: This is beyond a doubt the worst strategy guide ever made... I bought this thing as part of a package with the game at Sam's Club for about 3 bucks extra and i want a refund.. It is basically little more than a way to increase hits to their company website. It is extremely vague on everything, refering you to a webpage to get the information you need, which entirely defeats the purpose of having the book... If i wanted to be jumping online every five minutes i would just download a walkthrough someone had typed up for free.
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Summary: SAVE YOUR MONEY
Review: The playonline site is free, even though it lacks information and has totally inappropriate pictures (i.e. the picture of a boss fight in the chocobo digging section). The book is worthless since you're always made to reference their online site which you have to register for. It's all an advertising gimmick.
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Summary: Ripped off
Review: I wish I'd saved my money. The detailed info I was looking for is on their web site, not in this "guide". It's just an excuse to send traffic to their site ...
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Summary: A banner ad in a book.
Review: I agree with many people here that this book does more to promote you going to playonline.com than actually being a strategy guide itself. Save your money, and just take the book's message of "go to playonline.com."
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Summary: Waste of money, time and effort
Review: This entire book is nothing but an advertisement for the 'PlayOnLine' website. It gives some maps and some simple hints that you could easily have figured out on your own. However, are you looking for the best weapons? You'll have to visit PlayOnLine. Want to develop your Chocoba? PlayOnLine. Sidequests? Play...oh, you get the idea. If you don't have internet access, you're toast. even if you do, the PlayOnLine website is NOT friendly. It's slow, and the info you're trying to get is pretty well buried. You'd do better printing out one of the many online strategies put out from the private sector on the net. I seriously hope Bradygames catches a clue (and losses some revenue) from this worthless nonsense.
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Summary: A huge waste of money
Review: Completely refrain from buying this book at all costs. Itcontains absolutely nothing you can use-and constantly directs you tothe website that has been created by Squaresoft...It's not an"authorized" book (by Squaresoft), but I've looked thruit(after playing the game), and it seems to include everything that ison the Squaresoft website (no pictures are included, though), and youcan dowload it to your computer for free.
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Summary: A complete waste of money and paper
Review: This guide is horrible. All of BradyGames other strategy guides are superb, but this one falls horribly short. If I could have I would have given it a zero. The PlayOnline.com website contains all the information in the guide and then some. Save yourself the $15 and just print out the website. But even the website is not of a complete help. They only have one map, the world map, that's it. It is absolutely no help with the chocobo part of the game.
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Summary: Extended advertising for PlayOnline.com
Review: I made the mistake of buying two copies of this book for friends who I'd also bought the game for. Each and every interesting tip and sidequest is not found in the book, but on Square's PlayOnline.com website. Scant bits of information are given with a little "Want more information on how to do this? Visit PlayOnline.com!" blurb to intice you on to the site. In fact, some pages include more of the "PlayOnline" ads than actual information. If this is the future of videogame strategy guides, online walkthroughs will definitely be more attractive. They might lack the glossy pages and screenshots of the books, but they're not an extended ad for an online service either. Do NOT make the same mistake I did. Avoid this book at all costs.
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Summary: Waste of Money
Review: ...The guide is very vague in it's stuff. For example, it saysto climb to the top, flip the switch, then exit. I doesn't tell youwhich way, considering that there is a door to the left and right. Italso neglects to mention that you should look for another door on theright. Another example which prompted me to write this, is that ittells you to get some items(for those that far, the bloodstones), butdoesn't tell you to equip them, which means betting the boss or notwith a very weak mage party, where magic doesn't work because theguide forget to tell you to do something. Another point, is that itrelies on PlayOnline too much. For example, most people wouldonly get the guide to find out how to do the sidequests, but all itsays is that they exist, but that you must go to PlayOnline to findout how to do them. Another example is that it says, "To find outhow to get Betrix's Save the Queen at the end of the game, go toPlayOnline!". Or how about this one, "To see how to get theExcalibur II, go to PlayOnline!"? In conclusion, this guide is aREAL waste of money. The only reason it got one star was because thisform won't let me give a negative ten.
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Summary: Disappointing book
Review: I specifically requested this guide for Christmas because I was so impressed with the thoroughness of the Bradygames guides for FF7 and FF8. This guide is really disappointing, especially because of the constant referencing to Playonline, the bane of my existence. I could somewhat understand them putting more obscure facts on the website, like prizes to mini-games, but basic info like character stats and weapon abilities should be in the book. If I could return this, I most definitely would, and I'll have to think twice before trusting the Bradygames name again.
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