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Spell Breaker
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 Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 12:20 am Post subject: How is the strategy guide? |
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For those who have it, how is the BradyGames official guide to the game? I thought the one for IV was very weak and shallow, bordering on almost useless.
Even if it's bad, I'll probably pick it up, if only because I like to thumb through game guides every once in a while. You can't get the same experience printing out a guide from GameFAQs.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 12:26 am Post subject: |
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Better than IV, but the lack of maps in criminal. X_X
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Camus the Noble
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| Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 12:36 am Post subject: |
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Personally, I like the guide, but as Sophita said, it could have done with some maps. Still, it's far, far better than Suikoden IV's strategy guide, and the walkthrough is well, and sometimes even cleverly, written. Furthermore, there's a pretty good bestiary, an impressive character section, and a directory of items.
All in all, not a bad piece of work. In fact, it's probably the best official Suikoden guide yet, although, admittedly, the competition in that category isn't too steep. |
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Danny
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| Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 12:38 am Post subject: |
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...... Are there plenty of artworks?? :?
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| Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 4:01 am Post subject: |
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You guys are using a walkthrough already?
I'm currently hoping that I haven't missed any SODs |
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Camus the Noble
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| Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 8:48 am Post subject: |
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| Danny wrote: |
| ...... Are there plenty of artworks?? :? |
There are some nice pieces of art of random enemies in the last ten pages or so, as well as various pictures of the characters scattered throughout the book. You can also see every character's sprite in the Characters section, but that doesn't necessarily qualify as artwork... |
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| Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 9:14 am Post subject: |
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The japanese guide came out a few days ago and is excellent.
Full of artworks (with a full page for each star and a lot more), interview of director, game director and sound director, even an updated history with the event of V and a very good design IMO.
I'm glad to see konami producing guides of similar quality than Ultimania's (FF and other square games official guides) |
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