Final Fantasy Tactics (Prima's Official Strategy Guide) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Elizabeth Hollinger, James Ratkos
Publisher: Prima Games
Category: Book
List Price: $14.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 473753
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.3
ISBN: 0761512462
Dewey Decimal Number: 793.9325369
EAN: 9780761512462
ASIN: 0761512462
Publication Date: February 1998
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Amazon.com Review
How do you follow up one of the most ambitious, anticipated, and successful video games of all time? With an equally ambitious game that has a unique look and feel, but remains true to its lineage. This is the story behind Final Fantasy Tactics, the new Sony Playstation game from Squaresoft. Following the epic role-playing game Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy Tactics focuses more on battles and strategies for winning them. This book, which is far more engaging than your average all-text strategy guide, can help you master each of the game's 70 battle maps, which are depicted in several full-color screen shots. Before getting into that, however, the guide goes to great lengths to explain the game's incredible depth and the many intricacies you'll have to learn in order to be successful. The latter portion of the book explains the differences between the game's 20 different job classes and provides a wealth of statistics on the many weapons and creatures that come into play.
Product Description
Battle-by-battle strategies
70 battle maps in 3D!
All treasures, secret places, and hidden items revealed
Statistical information for action, reaction, and movement skills for every job class
Discover how to play FF VII's Cloud Strife!About the Authors
Elizabeth Hollinger still has fond memories of playing video games with her mother and sister in the wee hours of the morning before catching the bus to go to school. She swears that this latest trek through childhood is prompted only by the Japanese game manuals she translates for friends (both real and web-based). Really.
James M. Ratkos still finds time to fuss over the appearance of the website he and Beth maintain when not stressed out by his full-time job. In his spare time, he enjoys mountain biking through the huge, uh, hills in Michigan.
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 Worth the money February 7, 2008
This is a pretty good strategy guide. I had already beaten the game once before I actually bought this guide of Amazon for 10 bucks. When I played the game the 2nd time using the strategy guide, it helped me find secrets and other things that I had no idea about before. It also has a very useful appendix that lists all the Armour you can buy, all the monsters, missions, etc. Along with a very useful description of each of the 20 Job classes.
 zodiac brave story July 1, 2005
0 out of 14 found this review helpful
Very Good Nobulaks.......om kotomou mato nu!!!! mamatai ko dogo?? patazon kui ziau doino... bantaton katatanak...
 Not exactly the Great White Hope... November 26, 2002
3 out of 18 found this review helpful
Final Fantasy Tactics is a game where you have to use tactics. You have to THINK. You can't expect a book to do your thinking for you. The guide's strategies are a joke anyway.
WHat is usefule, however, is some of the job descriptions and the other million details you want for a perfect file. However, be warned--there are many inaccuracies and errors. Besides, you usually find better information on the net anyhow.Buy it if you're a die-hard FFT fan, too dumb to think of a good strategy, too lazy to bother yourself to think, or don't have internet access (then why are you here? hmm...). Otherwise, you don't really need color maps and fancy fonts, now do you?
Great June 20, 2002
0 out of 19 found this review helpful
I got the stratagy guide almost the earliest day possible. I hope to do business with this person in the future.
I don't know what you fools are talking about... January 28, 2002
10 out of 15 found this review helpful
...because I think that the strategy guide is quite useful. You would have to be a buffoon to need actual STRATEGIES to win the battles - this is not the intended purpose. However, knowing that the marquis has an entire complement of Genji armor, which otherwise cannot be found, makes the gaming experience much more enjoyable. Also, knowing WHERE to find Cloud's materia blade, without which he cannot perform any special attacks, is quite nice. I guess I COULD complain that Square put these things into the game in order to get us to buy strategy guides, but hey, that's not a complaint against the GUIDE, right?
All in all, I found the guide useful, and I would recommend it to anyone who wants to get everything possible out of the game. However, if you need the guide simply to get through the battles, well, maybe you should switch to another game, like Candy Land.
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