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A must buy for a true Crisis Core fan. Very detailed step by step intructions on how to get through with colorful depictions of what to do.
Other than that it's an excellent enhancement to your gaming experience. Granted its the price to pay since I chose to use a cheat book, but I just wanted people to know what they're in for should they decide to purchase it. I am one of those people who must uncover every item, secret, and ending that's available in a game. And though this guide provides those options to me, the trade-off is having the story spoiled well-before I've earned it.
you people have got to consider the over-40s people with your font-type sizes. However, it just provided explanations which were very basic, and difficult to understand. The other exception is an event where Zack (the main character) has to save a boy's mother from a fire. But this event will only happen if you have completed another task and reported back to the boy. I can't even see a lot of it with reading glasses, and have to resort to a magnifying glass. The guide gives excellent instructions and tips for the rest of the story-line.
A nice strategy guide for an excellent game. I had to go back to a previous save when I realized what had happened. Part of it is the fault of the game itself, given that they made materia fusion so complex. Even so. Even now, after I get the whole materia fusion thing, I still can't make head or tail of the pull-out fusion guide. The above two exceptions are the only details that were deficient/incorrect though. The strategy guide is very informative, and makes sure that nothing is missed through the story-line of the game - with two exceptions. At a certain point, the story moves on to a new area of the game and it never goes back to the previous section.
Oh, if anyone from Brady reads this. There was also a pull-out section that was nothing but horribly confusing. But the guide could have shone here, by making it more understandable. I did not regret getting the guide. There were no errors, and the strategies were accurate and helpful.
I would recommend it to other people, without a doubt. The over-40s demographic is fast being recognized as a major video-game consumer, so strategy guides are no longer the realm of "young eyes". Apart from the materia fusion let-down, it was otherwise an excellent guide. While the book does say to finish the tasks in the first section, it doesn't say that you will never have the opportunity to come back. I had to get better instructions online.
The one big down-side of the guide, is the scant attention it gives to materia fusion. The book specifically says that there is no need to report back to the boy, but if you don't, you don't get the "fire event". The best part of the guide is the mini-strategies for the 300 missions in the game.
If you find yourself desperate for some FF action check out War of the Lions first and if still hasn't come out yet, and you are still desperate, check out this. It will give you some nifty background on the FFVII world, but has zero replay value. Meh.That pretty much describes my attitude towards this game. I have been a big fan of the Final Fantasy series, but Crisis Core just felt tedious and was not challenging (even on hard).
Since there's an invisible Experience point counter for Zack, I assume there is also one for Materia.The Missions section is very good, giving all the necessary information. That this assumption is restated elsewhere in the Guide makes me wonder if the writers truly are the "fans" they profess to be in the Introduction, and about the accuracy of info relating to characters who debut in this game. As I was mid-way through my second play-through when I got this Guide, I've only used the walk-through for the end-game, and I found myself flipping pages more than I should have to. However, the poster was disappointing: as the reverse is the Materia Fusion chart, the need for a long composition gets us a picture of Zack looking over his shoulder, the Buster Sword being the focus. There are two main things that determine if I'll buy a strategy guide: Do I care about the game enough to go for 100% completion on everything, and would it be easier for me to achieve that if I'm looking at one book rather than clicking around between four different guides online.
The Art Gallery likewise was anticlimactic; space devoted to NPC's and gadgets could have been put to better use, and should have avoided inclusion of production art of settings already placed elsewhere in the Guide.Lastly, me being the huge FFVII geek that I am, I was perhaps more disappointed than newcomers to the world of FFVII by inaccuracies in the Characters section. So far I've found the sections dealing with Accessories, Shops, and Fusion Items comprehensive. The biggest of these was that it says Tifa met Cloud during the events of Crisis Core; even if you haven't played the original FFVII, events later on in CC let you know this is not the case. Long story short, if you like playing with a book to guide you, go ahead and get this if these deficiencies don't override that desire. Unfortunately, I have found one annoying mistake in this part (a mistake repeated elsewhere in the Guide when referring to this), and that is that it incorrectly gives Fire as the second spell you need to cast on the Magic Pot in Mission 10-2-3. Otherwise what I've read of this section seems great.On the "pretty pictures" front, Nomura's illustration of the cast (not the one seen in the game's save screen) alone made the book worth it.
My other concern is, if the book isn't helpful, will I at least get lots of pretty pictures of my favorite characters. The Materia section is also good at detailing how and or/where to get specific Materia. There are also beautiful high quality CG renderings of the characters scattered throughout. The Bradygames Guide's touted poster and Art Gallery section were definitely factors in my decision to buy.If you're going for 100%, this guide will get you there, but I gave it a modest rating because I found the information poorly organized. (It should be Fira). Their explanation would have you think it's completely random, whereas my experience is that the more you use a particular materia, the more likely it is to gain a level.
The Bestiary section is neither alphabetized nor indexed, instead enemies highlighted in the walk-through are listed with the page number they appear on in the Bestiary. The leveling up section left one of my questions unanswered though, and that is HOW to level up Materia.
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