Final Fantasy IX Official Strategy Guide

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Summary: Not even a guide
Review: This book isn't even a guide. All it does is direct you to links. Why couldn't they have just put all the stuff on Play-Online into this book? Play-Online is slower that a jack-rabbit on Tuesday. Brady needs to hire David Cassady back to write the FF series guides.

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Summary: Final Fantasy IX official Strategy Guide
Review: This book has beautiful pictures and tell all the aspects off the game, but you have to go to there website to learn these aspects. This "call out box" idea is terrible. They say if you are still haveing trouble with the very little info we gave you you can waste more of your time at our website.

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Summary: Horrible, Horrible, Horrible!
Review: What is wrong with Squaresoft?! People buy strategy guides so that they can find the information about the secrets and best way to master a game, not so they can read "If you want to know how to do this, or if you want to know what these things do, or if you want to know how to find this treasure, or if you want to see maps of a certain place, you'll have to go online to OUR website and punch in awkward keywords that addresses a server that is either down or extremely slow making it nearly impossible to find any of the information you were looking for in the first place, despite having paid money for the book" This strategy guide is nothing but pretty pictures and "codes" for finding the information you want immediately but have to slog through online. In my opinion, this is the worst strategy guide I have ever owned.

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Summary: Don't waste money on this INCOMPLETE GUIDE
Review: Well, this is just a incomplete guide. It only provide a general guide which most of the gamer could be able to figure out themselve. If you are looking for indepth solution, you still have to refer to the official website. If this is the case, why shouldn't you save your money and just log-in to the particular website and retrieve all the information ?

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Summary: What strategy is included?
Review: I just received the strategy guide last night, but when I looked through the beginning sections of the book, I found a disturbing problem. The writer decided to use the new PlayOnline.com site as a crutch so he didn't have to include a lot of information in the book itself. For most topics you will find little notes on the side of the page saying "For more detailed information on ... goto PlayOnline.com." I really don't understand what happened this time.

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Summary: Final Fantasy IX Strategy Guide: Offical Waste of Paper
Review: This strategy guide has to be one of the worst I have ever seen. When you buy a strategy guide you expect it to tell you the secrets of the game. Instead of doing this it will say something like: "You can take part in a Gambling mini-game with the Nero Brothers." Then on a little side bar it says: "There are some requirements to playing this minigame. Go to play Online for the details." This is just one of the many "secrets" in the Side Quests Mini-Games, and Secrets section of the guide. So if you want to know the exact link to where you can find the actual secrets and other information then buy this guide because that is the only thing it is good for.

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Summary: Only 2 words Play Online..................its sad
Review: Okay first of all. This book keeps forcing you over and over to go online. Just about every 5 pages it says check out play online. Even all the secrets are at Play Online, and all the important stuff is at that website. Even the maps. Even the Bestiary is bad. This guide is a waste of money. With them always saying Check out play online.com for more info. Why was this guide made? There FFVIII guide was much better put together. When will Bradygames realize that not everyone has a computer or that not everyone has internet conection. You probably won't even need it. Take my advice and don't get this guide. It only ends up leading you to a website. Unless you want to be going to your computer every 10 minutes this guide is no help. All the secrets, side quest, boss strategies, maps, and even abilities is found at Play Online. Don't bother with this guide at all.

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Summary: This is a total waste of money
Review: This is the absolute worst strategy guide I have ever seen. The strategy guide for FF VII was great, the one for FF VIII was not as good, but still extremely helpful. This is without a shadow of a doubt a TOTAL RIPOFF. I am only partially through the first disc, and so far, this book has given me no information I could not figure out myself. It doesn't even give a full list of the character abilities, just a handful of the abilities for each character and a code to get the "full list" from the website. In the event that you do go to the website (which means you can't just grab the book and check it quickly while you're playing the game) and put in this keyword, the information is presented in a strip that is maybe one and a half inches high and the print is extremely small. I honestly think if you used this site much you would go blind. Save your money for something better, like paying someone to hit you in the head with a hammer.

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Summary: This book is great...
Review: ...for people who spend half there lives online trying to figure out the game they just bought instead of playing it and enjoying it. I bought this guide because I couldn't even get on the website. Imagine my dismay when every page has a link to the site so you can find information that should have been in the book in the first place. If Bradygames is going to continue with this "new" style of strategy guides in the future, then they've lost me as a customer.

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Summary: The playonline idea sucks
Review: Basically, the guide is ok to guide you through the events about the Final Fantasy 9, but whenever it comes to an important phrase, it says to go to the wedsite called Playonline.com which is dreadky slow due to the heavy traffic. I bought the book is try to complete the game with ease not jumping aroud to my pc and log the site for detail information, why I purchase the book if i can get better details from the wedsites. If you wanted to complete all the sidequests, the guide gave no further information about where to locate them but they simply said LOG ON TH THE PLAYONLINE.COM, I certainly hope that brady games will abadon the stupid idea of using wedsites and print all the information we needed in the stragety guide itself.