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This is a terrible book, but the "Cheat Sheats" help in this one. You should get Nintendo Power for after the Elite Four, because this book does not have any info about those events. Overall, Nintendo Power is the better of the 2.
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This was a terrible excuse for a guide. The book was poorly constructed and a great deal of its information was wrong. I hope that in the future they devote more time to editing the guides before putting them out. Next time I intend to buy Nintendo Power.
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I haven't read the other reviews yet, but quickly scanning down to look at the shocking number of low stars, my feelings are the same. When I went to Best Buy this was the only 8.5x11 full color out there, so I can't dog it out too much. That said...I use to pay $15 for original art graphic reprographic comic books. Appling this to images that have already been printed, and just collected into a book at different sizes leaves a bad taste. Example: Page 11, Caterpie must have been 0.5"x0.5" and is blown up to like 6"x5" or a quarter of the page and the pixes show (lines are no longer round). This was not a post script, but I'm not going any further with that. I've spent about an hour on this so here's what's factual:
- No index of terms, items, maps, routes, and building layouts.
- Maps are not listed sequentially
- Maps missing, (I didn't look for them all) include but are not limited to: Diglett cave and Route 10.
- Missing maps (Diglett cave and Route 10) mean no pokemon finder lists for the grass areas there.
- Page 27 the stragety guide says, "the location of the switches is random," and to just keep trying (?) (Anyone else wish they spent a little more time here?)
- No device diagrams for the wireless, cable, or backwards compatibility on multiplayer or the console.
- No multiplayer strategies.
- My book spin cracked 3 months after purchase. Pages 1/2 will fall out soon.
- Attack table column & row label not shown (i.e., attacking pokemon vs. defending).
- You'll need to read many pages after finding the special device listed in the location on the map. No index in the back. No cross reference or mention in the book often. You'll never know where you get an item to be able to use a power in some cases until you find it.
- Friendship pre-Pikachu, Clefairy, and Togepi as well as post-friendship Golbat methods not listed. These could go on page 7 if they reduced the graphic. (But, maybe it's in there, there's just no index...I'm still looking.)
- A minimum finder's chart is useful, but not listed e.g., You'll need (2) oddishes because gloom will evolve to either Vileplume or Bellossom.
Does a 5 year old care about this? Yes, deeply. And, don't be the dad to tell him, you don't know after buying this or you'll just go looking on the Internet. Is it a bad book? No.
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I've played every Nintendo Pokemon game, and I have guides for most of them. The Prima Official Game Guide for Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen is the worst guide I've seen.
The guide will get you past all the gym leaders and tell you where to catch Articuno, Moltres, and Zapados, but that is as far as it goes. It says on the cover "maps for every area," but I've found at least seven areas that it does not have maps for. Next, on the cover it says, "hard-to-catch Pokemon found," but I have so far found wild Pokemon in areas that the guide says you cannot find them. For example, in Viridian City, it says you can catch Gyrados, Horsea, Magikarp, Psyduck, Slowpoke, and Staryu, but I have caught Slowbros in that water as well.
I have also found several glitches in the guide. For example, it says you can catch Gyrados in Fuchsia City, but the picture of Gyrados is really a Weedle. The maps show where some of the items are hidden but I have found items in places not shown on the map. Another annoying thing is that it does not list the level of the legendary birds, so I don't know whether to try and capture them now or later.
In the Pokedex section of the guide, it says that some Pokemon can be caught on Seven Island and Six Island. What does that mean? The guide does not say anything about a Six or Seven Island. All they tell you is that some Pokemon can be caught there. Does that mean it's a hidden Island? Does that mean you can catch some Pokemon, but the guide writers don't know where? No map or description is included in the guide.
The maps don't always show where all the passages and paths lead. The maps do not show where some caves go. At the edge of some of the maps it says "to town," but it does not name the town.
The guide only tells you the name and location of the items, but not what it does. I have found items that are not listed in the guide. It tells you different events, for example if you talk to somebody you will get a Pokemon, but so far I have found at least three events that it does not list. It tells you the name and level of every trainer's Pokemon but it does not say the attacks or items of each Pokemon. Every other guide I've seen at least has the attacks of the elite four and your rival. But this guide only says the name and level; it does not say the attacks or items of any Pokemon. It does not even say what level the Pokemon are that you get in events. Overall, don't get it. I am planning to get the official Nintendo guide; when I sell the Prima guide, be sure not to buy it. I have used the Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire Official Nintendo guide and it is everything I need.
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This guide by Prima is one of the worst I've ever seen. The maps are poor, I couldn't even find a map for one of the early routes. They don't tell you what page to go to when changing maps like the Nintendo guide does. The Pokedex is incomplete. It has quite a few mistakes that are unacceptable. I always notice some mistakes in guides, even the Nintendo one, but never this many.
About the only thing this guide has going for it is that it lists where the hidden items are that you would normally need to use the ItemFinder to locate. This bit of information in itself doesn't make the guide worth it, in my opinion.
I won't carry on forever about it because the other reviewers have done a good job describing how poor this guide is, but I wanted to add my two cents to the pot.
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