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 enlarge | Author: Bradygames
Brand: PENGUIN GROUP (USA) INC
Category: Book
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  81 reviews
Sales Rank: 8570
Platform: Not Machine Specific
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Batteries Included: No
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.4 x 0.8
MPN: 744008379
ISBN: 0744008379
Dewey Decimal Number: 794
UPC: 752073008376
EAN: 9780744008371
ASIN: 0744008379
Publication Date: October 31, 2006
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Condition: Cover warped by water damage, sun-bleached, creased, and stained. Moderate reader wear to pages. Frayed spine sides, spine tilted. Decent reading copy in acceptable condition. Orders Shipped in One Business Day! Great Customer Service. Your Satisfaction is Guaranteed!
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 Beautiful is this book all over.... my room... January 6, 2008
OK, I'm about to enter the Mosphorian Highwaste. I'm going to need the map of that. I know it's here somewhere... hmm... yep, here it is, right under by pillow.
Maybe I should go out on a hunt. I'll need the guide to mark 27. Where's that now... hold on... ah, under my chair.
You know, as I'm using this guide, I'm really finding it convenient that the publisher saw fit to lend it only a temporary binding. Now as I use it in the privacy of my own home, I can reorder the sections of it as I find convenient... just in case I don't find it intuitive that guides to the weapons and items are listed AFTER the actual walkthrough. Of course, I really haven't been able to keep them ordered as the various pages find their way into remote locations throughout my abode... just like the important pieces of information in the book lie in wait scribed in six point font like minute treasures amongst beautiful but unnecessary artwork and redundant information on sidequests that yield virtually nothing.
Speaking of inconspicuous pieces of really important information, I seem to have misplaced my monograph guide. Now in the book it was after the item lists, given a tiny paragraph to itself with an nondescript header with a tiny announcement that monographs are, in fact, the single most important item in which to invest early on. I'm glad I found that out after reaching level 40 and already having spent 1,000,000 gil by selling items that would have taken less then half the time to collect with the monographs in my possession. So where is it again... ah yes, under my TV.
You know, it might have been easier to just send me all the important pages in a manila folder rather than choosing this book-like format in which to bind them just long enough to survive the shipment to my door. After all, book-style guides are ancient history. Removable rearrangeable pages... that's where the future of guides lies..
 GOOD December 17, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
muy bueno lastima q se me estropeo un poco en el viaje pero es excelente
The Books seem to be getting bigger, but... December 8, 2007
The book contains a lot of information but most of it seems to be poorly organized as compared to earlier books by the same company. Mapping is almost useless as it requires you to flip back and forth several pages to follow along. Too much plot can be revealed accidentally by reading ahead, since the descriptions of an area seem to be filled with plot details instead of area details. Print color combinations are a bit hard to read in some spots as well.
Negatives aside, the book does contain all the pertinent information that one needs for the game and expects from the past experience with similar books by this publisher.
 Disorganized, incomplete, and frustrating. Lots of pictures though December 3, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I know it is often said and in saying what I am about to say I will likely discredit everything that follows, but despite that I have to dish out the ever popular. "I don't think I'll buy another Brady Games guide." This guide was sort of the straw that broke the camel's back. This isn't the worse guide I've ever owned actually far from it. That honor belongs to actually another Final Fantasy guide FFIX and I almost hope that they fired the guy responsible for that horrible piece of crap as it can hardly be described as anything but without drifting into the "too vulgar to print" catergory. Getting back on topic though let's take a look at my problems with the guide in question.
1.) Price -It's $20 and at the time this review is up so is the game. That is a lot of money considering you are paying for "guidance" for the same price that you are paying for the experience of playing the game. For that sort of price I want my guide to provide me with 100% of the information I need to provide me with maximum fun ...or at the very least highlights of the biggest secrets. I'll elaborate more on this below
2.) Disorganized -The information that is there has to be cross-referenced (without notation to do so) constantly. Nothing seems to work sequentially it's like a puzzle the group wants you to put together and I didn't pay $20 for Brady Games to give me another mini-game to figure out. Why are there 2 sections on Espers with only one being useful? That of course being the one in the back of the book and not the trap they want you to fall into in the first few pages.
3.) They highlight worthless information and completely disregard the important -I saw an entire section of page telling me of all the things I can do to complete a quest that would reward me with utter crap like a single elixir and a knot of rust. I saw no information regarding the crystal upper levels or even a mention of Pharos's basement. The latter of which holds some of the most powerful and important items in the game. Anyone who has played this game knows how awful status effects are in it and the fact that they don't tell you how you get a ribbon in the game (when there are 5!!!) is just wrong. Ribbon is probably the most important accessory in the game. They should have a whole section explaining how you get them and the best weapons
The only thing they did right by me in the guide is that atleast helped you get the Zodiac Spear as they should have they plaster information on it all over the place constantly, but that wouldn't have been necessary had they not been so wordy and I think the print quality looks great and I don't hate the binding job like others, but they made a big book about a 3rd of it being redundant or useless. I could have made a book half this size and given more information. I had to go to online peer guides to find everything I needed and in the future I think I'll just do that and save myself the headache and $20
A Thank You November 8, 2007
This is a thank you to all that took the time to submit a review. I have been reading them as I ordered this guide directly from Brady Games. I have never received it and am considering reordering from Amazon. It seems like closing the barn door after the horse is gone, as I have 400 Hrs. plus in the game and character levels ranging from 58-63, but that crystal thing has some secrets and I would like to have a map. I know that there are at least 20 way stones in that thing and I want to check things out. I've already done what needs to be done there. I think the Excaliber sword is in there somewhere, although I may have missed the boat
on that. Again, thanks for the reviews, they have been helpful. Charlie S.
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