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Summary: good walkthrough; lacking in Nintendo Gallery collection
Review: A commercial guide is used to help the player get through a game with minimal effort and meant as a time saving effort. It has to enhance the player's experience by giving clear, concise maps, listings of items, weapons, enemies, as well as divulge secrets hard to find on your own.Doug Walsh suceeded in most criteria. In his walkthrough, he assists the player by placing accurate maps, marks the rooms, item locations and gives boss strategies. The sidequests section is equally choke full of useful strategies. A section by section of WW's 49 sections are given-a pull out 2-sided poster helps in your task of exploring the world of WW. In these, he has done an excellent job. However, the Nintendo Gallery collection, easily the most daunting task faced by any Zelda fan, is not covered fully by him. There IS a complete listing of all the figures, but he does not tell you how to get their picture for ALL figures. To give credit, he did highlight the importance of taking Tetra's picture but the information about several key personal in Wind Waker being obtainable only in the second playthrough is WRONG. I managed to get all of them in the first playthrough. You can purchase them from Lenzo-no need to wait till your second walkthrough. Lenzo will offer you a Legendary Pictograph during different moon phrases-so just keepy playing the Song of Passing until you get them all. Information on hard to find NPCs and timing to take their pictures are also MIA. Some NPCs will never face you in the face-so how are you going to get that 'full frontal shot' as required? Others like the Kragaroc need to be staying still and not flying the skies for an effective shot to be approved. I learnt these through trial and error or got the missing information from gamefaqs. Similiar to Metriod Prime scanning of enemies, in WW, you only get one chance to take pictures of certain characters and bosses. This information is also missing-making my second playing of WW compulsory if I am keen on completing my collection of figures. In short, an good guide for anyone who don't want to complete the Nintendo Gallery. Perfectionists would have to look elsewhere.
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Summary: Good looking guide
Review: As the reviewer lower said, these guides are pointless, you can find all this information online free of charge. I also never buy guides...except this one. I never used the thing a single time while completing the game. I just loved the game so much that after ic ompleteed it i wanted to go through and play it again using the guide to get EVERYTHING i also enjoy having the story(or more of it) at my hands this is one of the first guides ive ever bought, due to the info being free, and itll take an amazing game for me to ever buy another one...but this guide has LOTS of excellant information and an excellant presentation
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Summary: Horrible
Review: I agree with the other reviewers; the whole point of the game is to beat it yourself, not to get a strategy guide to do it for you. I only got this because I like to have a list of the items and stuff, so I know what they do (all games are usually a little vague on items). Anyway, this strategy guide doesn't have any of that. It has some useless appendixes in the back, and that's about it. I wouldn't waste my money on this again, so unless you really want something that'll give you lots of maps and take your hand and walk you through the whole flaming game, then get this (by the way, BradyGames usually comes out with some of the worst strategy guides, so this might not be a good idea anyway).
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Summary: Great guide, very little lacking
Review: I am about half way through the game and I have had this guide by my side the whole way. So far I ahave only found it missing 1 thing. At the beginning of the game, the chest with 100 rupees hidden under your grandmothers home.
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Summary: Required Reading
Review: I can't imaging being able to complete this or other Zelda games (Ocarina, Majora's Mask) without some sort of reference guide like this. The nuances and sidequests would just be wayyyy too much for the average Joe to figure out without some help. That said, while there are more "hints" built in to Windwaker, the guidebook is a great reference in finding hard-to-find items such as heart pieces, treasure, etc. It also has a pull-out map of the great sea with all of the islands and what can or cannot be found on all of them. This, in addition to the standard walk-through make the guide a great value. Throw in the walk-through for Ocarina of Time (for those who bought the Windwaker/Ocarina Master Quest set) and it's amazing it didn't cost more. Well worth the investment if you just HAVE to have every single item in the game. :)
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Summary: I'm new with strategy guides...
Review: I don't use a lot of strategy guides, so my opinion might reflect my limited experience. But when we (my son and I) couldn't figure out what to do next or remember what we had already done in the WindWaker game, I decided to get the strategy guide. This guide is very well laid out and gives you needed information without spoiling the game for you. Half the fun of a Zelda game is the storyline, and this guide does not give away important plot development. Though I was able to find important items located on each island without having to return to the location over and over again. (And it does take a while to sail around the world in that little boat!) I found the guide well thought-out and an invaluable aid in my 'virtual' quest. Another person commented about the lack of info on the Nintendo Gallery. I must agree about that. Though I have found (in my 4th play-through) that trying to get all those photos is a huge and fun challenge. This is just an added feature to give the game replay value. If you are dead bent on getting the details on the Nintendo Gallery, do a search online. Overall, I would highly recommend this particular strategy guide.
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Summary: I'm new with strategy guides...
Review: I don't use a lot of strategy guides, so my opinion might reflect my limited experience. But when we (my son and I) couldn't figure out what to do next or remember what we had already done in the WindWaker game, I decided to get the strategy guide. This guide is very well laid out and gives you needed information without spoiling the game for you. Half the fun of a Zelda game is the storyline, and this guide does not give away important plot development. Though I was able to find important items located on each island without having to return to the location over and over again. (And it does take a while to sail around the world in that little boat!) I found the guide well thought-out and an invaluable aid in my 'virtual' quest. Another person commented about the lack of info on the Nintendo Gallery. I must agree about that. Though I have found (in my 4th play-through) that trying to get all those photos is a huge and fun challenge. This is just an added feature to give the game replay value. If you are dead bent on getting the details on the Nintendo Gallery, do a search online. Overall, I would highly recommend this particular strategy guide.
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Summary: AWESOME
Review: I have to agree that buying a strategy guide takes away the adventure of playing the game, but that is not the point.If you are the type of person that cannot stand to play a game for hours trying to solve a problem then strategy guides can help you through those hard times(but believe me, it is very rewarding to wait and be patient)it is all about preference, and as far as strategy guides go, The Wind Waker Official Strategy Guide HAS IT ALL. if you want a great strategy guide, don't hesitate!!!
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Summary: Awesome
Review: I puchased this when I got stuck on zelda and it helped me allot it is very detailed and well explained and eaven has about 20+ pages on the orcarino of time I recomend this to everyone who's having a tough time I give brady games major props hey should'nt a guide that have 272 pages be helpfull you decide : )
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Summary: Well-done strategy guide
Review: Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is not an easy game to write a strategy guide for, considering how very many tangents and extra features there are in the game. But this book succeeds pretty admirably, walking you throught the tough parts step-by-step. The charts that cover such things as where to find Heart Pieces and Treasure Maps are especially helpful. The only problem with the book is that in a few places, it directs you to use more difficult methods than necessary to accomplish tasks - for example, it might tell you to use water jars to cool off lava to make a footpath (hard to do and usually gets you burned a few times) when you can simply use your grappling hook to swing across the lava with no problem. But overall, this book is pretty much a must for anyone with a Zelda: Wind Waker game.
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