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Summary: I hope they get it right next time!
Review: I have one thing to say about this strategy guide...don't waste your money! Who wants to stop playing the game, just to hope online to get a hint that is only available through their online site?!
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Summary: i was seriously disappointed, the game [was] seriously bad.
Review: i swear, this is probably the worst thing money can buy. i was so seriously disappointed, i thought that when they said "detailed walkthrough" it meant there was a detailed walkthrough. my grandma could write something better and make a better game than this. you're wasting your money jack. i agree, they seriously forgot to put the strategy guide, into the strategy guide. no strategy at all. what if the reader doesn't have internet, like my friend, huh? well they did good on FFVIII's and FFX's strategy guides so i'm happy, but this is seriously a disappointment.
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Summary: WORST STRATEGY GUIDE EVER
Review: This is absolutely the worst strategy guide ever made for a game. I view guides as tools for people who want to cheat their way through a game and also for those who seem to require help during certain parts. This book aides neither. The book is nothing more than an advertisement pamphlet for playonline.com. The game itself is actually not that bad; probably not the best in the series, but ok. This book, though, probably helps to ruin the entire gaming experience. Every tiny piece of information that might have offered a morsel of useful "guiding of strategy" is absent. Every single item that the player might want to view is barely there; instead the player is directed to playonline.com to gain a little more information about the subject. And there, the player must put in a password from the book guide to access that which they want to read about and then the playonline information isn't even that great either. Don't waste your money; download a guide off of the internet or something but don't buy this book!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Very weak guide, save your money.
Review: I bought this guide right after the game came out a couple years ago. I had purchased other final fantasy guides and they had all been very helpful. This one they really bombed. The whole thing is pretty much a plug for their website playonline.com. You get constantly told to go to the website to get any real hints. Not recommended
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Summary: horrible
Review: this guide dose not tell you how to beat anyone!i had to figure most of it out myself.the game is bad too.you are much better off getting ff10.icant belive people call it a strategy guide!!
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Summary: Useless -- a huge disappointment
Review: This guide is nothing more than an overblown advertisement for PlayOnline.com. Most of the pages direct the reader toward the aforementioned site to find out the actual secrets, items, pathways, tricks, etc. So, you wind up having to sign up and register with the site to get anything out of the guide. Essentially, what the guide does is tell you where secret items and strategies are necessary, but then gives you a "keyword" to bring to PlayOnline.com to find them out. This creates a much larger time committment as you have to find the page, then find the site, then type in the keyword, then wait for the page to load, then read the article on the website, etc. A well-made strategy guide helps you get through the game more quickly. This guide wastes the time of the reader and serves as nothing more than a billboard for the actual "strategy guide" of PlayOnline.com. Dan Birlew's guides are usually indispensable when it comes to the games they cover, but in this case, he strikes out mightily. If you want the guide for the sake of having nice pretty maps and the eventual replacement roll of bathroom tissue, then this will satisfy your needs. If you're looking for something to help you through the labyrinthine depths of FF9, you'll have to look elsewhere.
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Summary: Stay away!
Review: I bought this guide with Final Fantasy 9 in the hopes of actually getting help. No luck there. You go through the guide hoping to find the secrets and hidden items to make your game 100% complete. It then tells you to sign-up and give your personal information to a site to get that info. The membership is free ,but I thought the purpose of the guide books were so you didn't have to run to the computer every 5 minutes for help. This guide is a total waste of money. Only get this guide if you are payed to do so.
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Summary: Don't waste your money on this
Review: I was very disappointed by the FF IX Strategy Guide. Brady Games and SquareSoft seem to have written this book more to push the PlayOnline game website rather than helping players with the game. Everytime I'd try to find information about something the strategy guide would tell me to log onto Play Online and enter a keyword in order to learn more. When I buy a strategy guide, I expect to find the answers there, not be told to go access a website. This guide was practically useless.
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Summary: Cool game
Review: I woulod have to say that FF9 is a cool game
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Summary: A Guide With Online Sections? Ugh!
Review: This is the worst guide I have ever seen. Seeing as half of it is online. To access the most important stuff you must have internet access and you must sign up at PlayOnline.com. Now it may very well be that they are trying to attract fans to PlayOnline.com but this is ridiculous. If you are stuck in a part of the game, then this guide is useful, but to get the most out of a game, I would recommend finding a fan written online guide instead of using this. It is appauling, and I regret purchasing it.
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