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2.0 out of 5 stars
Totally awful!, Mar 17 2004
This has got to be one of the worst strategy guides I have bought in my life! Essentially, the guide is very unclear when it tries to tell you where to go... the author(s) lose you so quickly its not even funny! I found myself getting lost very easily in the game, (and they call this a STRATEGY GUIDE!) For example, if you were in a cave, with many different screen shots that you will be walking through, they will tell you, "enter the cave and go to the fountain." Well, in that specific screen you are in currently, there is no fountain, and then you find out after walking through the cave in an endless search for that damn fountain that was SUPPOSED to be in the first screen shot after entering, it was, in fact, 4 screen shots away. It was extremely choppy like that, like the writer(s) just expected you to know exactly HOW you get to the fountain - Well, isn't that why I bought the guide in the first place? To be told these things? It was mostly like that in the guide for Golden Sun, (first of the guidebook), but when it got into Golden Sun: The Lost Age strategy guide, they got a little bit more descriptive, but not by much.I will say that this strategy guide was useful for discovering where you need to go next, and for finding items and occationally helped to find Djinn - otherwise, I wouldn't recommend it. I was vastly disappointed in Prima, because I have bought quite a few strategy game guides for them and they have had absolutely EXCELLENT guides... until this one. I believe it was a total misuse of $15 (I bought it at Borders), and it should be priced at only $7 considering how bad it is. I am beginning to think that the publishers just don't care anymore about what they are throwing out to the public... we rely on them to help us through the game when we get lost, not confuse us anymore than we are/ were.
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