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Summary: Should be called "Guide to PlayOnline"
Review: if you enjoy throwing away fifteen bucks, go ahead and buy the book. the book talks more about playonline.com than the game itself. i.e. on the characters pages, you should have deep info about a characters weapons and abilities, but instead they have some history and maybe one or two skills and then this really annoying blue tab in the margin with a keyword for playonline.com. the only reason to buy this book, about as thin and useless as a magazine, is that it has nice eye candy. but if you want art, buy the visual arts collection, which really is pretty nice.
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Summary: Buy only if you don't have a computer!
Review: The title should be a moot point, because you obviously have a computer if you are reading this. So, don't buy this! Why? The game is certainly hard and worthy of a few pointers here and there. But (and this is significant), this is the single most frustrating guide I've used. Here's a good example, let's say you want to get to the boss of Disc 1. The guide will do a good job of how to get to the boss, but then do you know what happens? It will say "for strategy to defeat this boss, go to PlayOnline!". This website is certainly comprehensive, and even more so than the $10 guide itself. The website is free and printable, so just spend 30 minutes printing out the walkthrough, and you will much better off than wasting your money on this guide. However, both have a major problem in that they contain major plot spoilers, so be warned. Awesome game, terrible guide.
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Summary: Useful book except for one thing
Review: The book is helpful, especially with the Play Online site. The only problem is that there is no maps of each area, so you get lost very easily.
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Summary: Not on par with what I expect from the company
Review: This strategy seems at best less that a third finished. As pointed out by many other reviewers, it always redirects you to playonline.com. I'd like to play the game not surf the net. Second, where are the maps? I can't even find them online! I have never seen an RPG stategy guide without maps before. What information is left in the guide after taking out the tidbits for playonline is spotty and very hard to use. The few times that I have tried to use playonline.com it has been slow or down. The site itself is hard to navigate.I'd like to see an unofficial stategy guide that does not rely heavily on the net to give useful information. It would be hard to make a worse stategy guide than this.
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Summary: Not worth the money
Review: This is the biggest waste of money possible. Every two sentences, it tells you to go to PlayOnline if you need more help and doesn't give any helpful information in the actual book. Save your money, there are a lot of good free walkthroughs on the web already and even the one on PlayOnline is free, or wait for an unofficial strategy guide, it will be worth more than this.
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Summary: You must be out of your mind!
Review: Ok, last I checked, Strategy guides should have strategy in them...Not a bunch of codes to use online to find out what you need to know. Do yourself a favor, don't waste your money on this complete waste of trees.
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Summary: very disappointed with this book
Review: I'dont know why bradygames make a book like this for a very good rpg game maybe the best of the series I've already finished disc one and I didn't really need the book and I got to tell you that I already bought it. It's very disappointed to me buying a guide and wasting my money and still have to look for things on the web, I don't think that was a marvelous idea because you have to search for a hint that it's not on the book instead you got a code for a special web site and also not a very good one. I hope in the following final fantasy sequencies for the playstation 2 make better strategy guides with helpful hints in the book not on the web.
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Summary: Play Online?
Review: This by far is one of the worst strategy guides I have ever bought. The "new" Play Online option is terrible. I bought the stragedy guide to help me through the game, not to make me look on the internet every page. Plus, even when I tried to get on to the Play Online website, it was always to busy and having problems. The guide it's self is very unorgnized, and leaves out important info. For the final boss of the game, they don't even give you a strategy. I didn't buy the guide for them to tell me to find out myself how to cure a problem. The worst of all is that it is very confusing. I had many times where I had no idea what they meant. The strategy guide does, however, give an ok walkthrough of the game for people who try to beat the games without help, and if they get stuck, they can fefer to the guide.
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Summary: What's the purpose?
Review: I bought this guide thinking it would be as helpful as all the other guides I'd bought from Brady Games in the past. That's what I get for thinking. This book is NOT a guide, it hardly helps you through general gameplay let alone helping you with the secrets of the game. It is however an advertisement for PlayOnline.com, which is rarely accessable. Don't buy this "book", try PlayOnline... If it's working.
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Summary: Absolutely Pathetic
Review: Why the heck would anybody make a statagy guide, then have all the info on the internet? I bought the book so I wouldn't have to be logging onto my computer to figure this stuff out!!!! And my computer is totally in a different room from the playstation. This book is definately getting returned and isn't worth the paper its printed on. Any thing in that book you can figure out pretty much on your own. DO NOT BUY...if I could I would give this book -5 stars.
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