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Summary: They dropped the ball
Review: Excellent guide overall, but being an avid RPG player, I felt they left me hanging when they didn't give me the complete information on finding the final ? shards to open the bonus dungeons! Completing a game to me means being able to finish the available side quests also. So the game went back on the shelf never knowing what lurked behind those final two tablets.
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Summary: missing one incredibly important thing
Review: how can they make a fine strategy guide as this and then leave out probably the most useful and important feature.. a complete map of the overworld!! the dungeon maps are good, in game maps, but the only overworld map included is the same as in the game's own manual.
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Summary: A Terrible Guide...
Review: I got this guide for christmas, along with dragon warrior III. I Got DW 1 & 2 last year along with prima's guide as well. I knew I was kind of risking it, (asking for a prima guide) when I used prima's dw 1&2 one last year, but this guide is far lower than acceptable. As previous raters said, their is NO Guide for the tiny medals. This is simply not acceptable. I didn't cough up $15 of my christmas money to get a guide that wasn't complete. That's just the minor part. The major part is (I'm sure some of the people who bought the guide and used it noticed this to) The base stats for the monsters is often wrong (especially for the Orochi in Zipangu cave, it's off by 100 HP and 3 MP! And for the fans who've played, I'm talking about the first time you fight him!). Another beef I have with the guide is that it is not really a guide at all. It's more of a suggestion book. It's like a chinese fortune cookie, you don't really know what it's supposed to mean. I mean, Dorothy Hollinger tried, but not hard enough. She didn't even get the spell guide right. For instance, it says that a Mage learns Return at lvl "x" (I think it said 15). My mage is at lvl 38 and still hasn't learned Return. Sorry, but that's just laziness. Was she thinking that people weren't going to see the error? I saw it.I could go on and on, but I'm not here to bash Dorothy Hollinger. She really did try. Maybe she could right a guide for a less complex game, like "Pong". I'll mention one more thing about what's wrong then talk about what's good. The bestiary isn't in Alphabetical order. It's just, well, only God knows what order she has it in. Now, for the good part. It is true that you can beat the game from the guide, just not master the game (find every medal, get every tool etc...) The Images are nice and glossy, and are amazingly nice for their age. The details on the classes are also well done, although she often points out obvious facts that every RPGer knows (i.e. that a mage is the opposite of a warrior).
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Summary: Great guide for a great game!
Review: If you're a fan of Dragon Warrior,you need to get this guide.Enough said.
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Summary: It's not simply good enough
Review: Indeed, it took me over 100 hours to finish DW7, it was a satisfying game. It was very satisfying, but also frustrating for I got stuck few times here and there. I got really stuck at one point and bought this strategy guide. I expected a full blown walk through with detailed step by step, however, I was left with more frustration because of this strategy guide rather than feeling liberated from the agony of being stuck.
It doesn't have a WHOLE WORLD MAP, which confused me lot of times, and how to reach certain location was just vague. It would've been a much better strategy guide if they simply put a whole map with arrow pointing at every location with their name-I'm not sure if the writer's intention was for the gamers to figure out the rest of the game with only structured guide, so the gamers can have their own share of 'fun' to figure out the way- and I don't think that's 'funny' or 'justified' when we are talking about a game strategy walk through. Information regarding items, weapons, and armors was insufficient. For instance, if you can only get this weapon from an enemy, it doesn't specify which enemy you would have to fight to get it, or though the whole walk through does show where to get certain items from either treasure box or from a certain event, on the weapon/armor list, it doesn't say anything, doesn't specify specific location. If you are looking for something 'barely' enough to proceed with your games, this might work fairly well, however sometimes, that 'barely enough' isn't enough, really.
I don't know what to say.. unless the price is really reasonable, I wouldn't recommend this strategy guide at all. But again, what are you gonna do when you are really stuck, right? It's a hughes game and I'm sure it might be an impossible job to really create a thorough walk through, however, just basic element and content of any walk through for RPG was missing, thus making it very frustrating. Good Luck.
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Summary: It's not simply good enough
Review: Indeed, it took me over 100 hours to finish DW7, it was a satisfying game. It was very satisfying, but also frustrating for I got stuck few times here and there. I got really stuck at one point and bought this strategy guide. I expected a full blown walk through with detailed step by step, however, I was left with more frustration because of this strategy guide rather than feeling liberated from the agony of being stuck.
It doesn't have a WHOLE WORLD MAP, which confused me lot of times, and how to reach certain location was just vague. It would've been a much better strategy guide if they simply put a whole map with arrow pointing at every location with their name-I'm not sure if the writer's intention was for the gamers to figure out the rest of the game with only structured guide, so the gamers can have their own share of 'fun' to figure out the way- and I don't think that's 'funny' or 'justified' when we are talking about a game strategy walk through. Information regarding items, weapons, and armors was insufficient. For instance, if you can only get this weapon from an enemy, it doesn't specify which enemy you would have to fight to get it, or though the whole walk through does show where to get certain items from either treasure box or from a certain event, on the weapon/armor list, it doesn't say anything, doesn't specify specific location. If you are looking for something 'barely' enough to proceed with your games, this might work fairly well, however sometimes, that 'barely enough' isn't enough, really.
I don't know what to say.. unless the price is really reasonable, I wouldn't recommend this strategy guide at all. But again, what are you gonna do when you are really stuck, right? It's a hughes game and I'm sure it might be an impossible job to really create a thorough walk through, however, just basic element and content of any walk through for RPG was missing, thus making it very frustrating. Good Luck.
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Summary: Sagemaster's Review
Review: The best game ever!! 10 times better then ff10. Graphics are nothing to get on the news for but you will get used to them. Long storyling with in-depth gameplay. You can even talk to the other characters and see what they have to say about the present situation. They somethimes even give you hints about what to do next.
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Summary: Sagemaster's Review
Review: The best game ever!! 10 times better then ff10. Graphics are nothing to get on the news for but you will get used to them. Long storyling with in-depth gameplay. You can even talk to the other characters and see what they have to say about the present situation. They somethimes even give you hints about what to do next.
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Summary: Elizabeth Hollinger delivers another great guide
Review: The strategy guide for DWVII from Prima is basically perfect. It's walkthru is easy to follow and theres a very helpful index of equipment, spells, skills, items and monsters near the end of the guide. Very nice.
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Summary: Good start, but falls just short.
Review: This book is really helpful if what you want is a desription of how to beat the personality system. It also has those oh-so-critical lists of moves, weapons, and items (very good ones too), and for the first half of the game it has detailed (but a bit small) maps of both the towns and dungeons. The last half though degrades to basicly a list of places to visit with little useful info. There's also no help in finding the tiny medals or hidden items. I would have liked more info on the monsters also. The info it does have seems to be based on battling a group of four of the same monsters, it isn't accurate when fighting individual or mixed groups of monsters. Still, I highly recommend using a book for this game and this is the only one, so it'll do.
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