Rinoalover
Video Game Nerd
Okay, first I'd like to say I couldn't find a thread about the strategy guide, if there is one... just merge mine to it. Thanks, and sorry if there is one. xP
This is mainly a rant thread, but I do want to know what others thought about it.
I bought the Piggyback Strategy Guide when I bought Final Fantasy XIII (on the day it came out), and I have to say the only thing I like about it is that they show you how the weapons increase, how much experience every item gives during customization, and the location of the items(and even this is irritating).
The Strategy Guide is VERY biased and opinionated, it says things like "you can decide on what party to use, but we suggest you use Lightning, Hope and Fang and the rest of the Guide will assume you have chosen it." (Or something resembling that.) I mean, a GOOD strategy guide would give you an outline of what to do on every boss with EVERY CHARACTER or, you know, at least give pointers instead of saying "Have Hope Buff the party..." or something like that.
Also, the Guide acts as if the main story is INCREDIBLE hard. Me and my brothers were laughing the whole time at the guide when it would talk about how hard a certain boss is and that it would talk around 40 min. to beat, and we would kill it in Chain Break. Yet, they never really state if Gil is hard to get, or how exactly to make Gil. I mean, in my opinion Gil is easily the hardest thing to collect in the game compared to how much you need to do anything. They never give any tips or points, or really any that are good. _-_ They act as if their weapons just miraculously maxed out during post-game, not even giving at least a small guide on how to go about making the Gil or collecting the items to do it.
They do give you the amount of experience a weapon needs to max, and a small guide on "oretoises", but I would have liked something more concrete.
Not to mention their "maps" are completely distorted and just wrong... I mean, some of the parts look really long in the guide... and just following the guide makes things seem long and can get annoying.
During our second play-through we ignored the guide all together, other than to compare boss strategies and character stats. We found the game much easier to navigate. Granted we had already gone through the game before, but I read through the guide and I still have a bit of trouble following it.
There are A LOT of things in the guide that just... irritated us. Like, for example, their reviews of each character. Hope > Vanille as a Medic. That's what they said. But we couldn't figure out how... Vanille learns healing faster, she has more HP and throughout most of the game she has barely less magic than him. And Sazh... they really don't like Sazh. Sazh's Blitz is AMAZING, but they completely ignored this. And supposedly he's only equal to Hope as a Synergists. Me and my Brother's always found Sazh WAY more useful than Hope. We say Bravery/Faith > Protect/Shell. The Guide is opposite. But, then again, they both learn all four. The main thing that confused us was the fact that Sazh learns Vigilance and Hope learns Veil. If you've played the game you'd know that Vigilance >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Veil in almost every situation. So we didn't get how they were even. oO
There are A LOT more things that got on out nerves (Like saying Sazh and Snow are bad Medics because they don't learn life.
) but... I think I've rambled on long enough. Sorry, this has been bugging me for a while and I just needed to vent... xD
I know a lot of this is nit-picky, but I spent money on this thing and I was hoping for something that was actually worth the $30+ I spent. I wasn't looking for a book that was trying to push it's own bias on the players.
Anyway. what did you guys think about it? Or, what to you think about my opinion?
And please be honest. If you liked it, tell me, don't let my thoughts make you scared to post your own.
xP
This is mainly a rant thread, but I do want to know what others thought about it.
I bought the Piggyback Strategy Guide when I bought Final Fantasy XIII (on the day it came out), and I have to say the only thing I like about it is that they show you how the weapons increase, how much experience every item gives during customization, and the location of the items(and even this is irritating).
The Strategy Guide is VERY biased and opinionated, it says things like "you can decide on what party to use, but we suggest you use Lightning, Hope and Fang and the rest of the Guide will assume you have chosen it." (Or something resembling that.) I mean, a GOOD strategy guide would give you an outline of what to do on every boss with EVERY CHARACTER or, you know, at least give pointers instead of saying "Have Hope Buff the party..." or something like that.
Also, the Guide acts as if the main story is INCREDIBLE hard. Me and my brothers were laughing the whole time at the guide when it would talk about how hard a certain boss is and that it would talk around 40 min. to beat, and we would kill it in Chain Break. Yet, they never really state if Gil is hard to get, or how exactly to make Gil. I mean, in my opinion Gil is easily the hardest thing to collect in the game compared to how much you need to do anything. They never give any tips or points, or really any that are good. _-_ They act as if their weapons just miraculously maxed out during post-game, not even giving at least a small guide on how to go about making the Gil or collecting the items to do it.
They do give you the amount of experience a weapon needs to max, and a small guide on "oretoises", but I would have liked something more concrete.
Not to mention their "maps" are completely distorted and just wrong... I mean, some of the parts look really long in the guide... and just following the guide makes things seem long and can get annoying.
During our second play-through we ignored the guide all together, other than to compare boss strategies and character stats. We found the game much easier to navigate. Granted we had already gone through the game before, but I read through the guide and I still have a bit of trouble following it.
There are A LOT of things in the guide that just... irritated us. Like, for example, their reviews of each character. Hope > Vanille as a Medic. That's what they said. But we couldn't figure out how... Vanille learns healing faster, she has more HP and throughout most of the game she has barely less magic than him. And Sazh... they really don't like Sazh. Sazh's Blitz is AMAZING, but they completely ignored this. And supposedly he's only equal to Hope as a Synergists. Me and my Brother's always found Sazh WAY more useful than Hope. We say Bravery/Faith > Protect/Shell. The Guide is opposite. But, then again, they both learn all four. The main thing that confused us was the fact that Sazh learns Vigilance and Hope learns Veil. If you've played the game you'd know that Vigilance >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Veil in almost every situation. So we didn't get how they were even. oO
There are A LOT more things that got on out nerves (Like saying Sazh and Snow are bad Medics because they don't learn life.
) but... I think I've rambled on long enough. Sorry, this has been bugging me for a while and I just needed to vent... xDI know a lot of this is nit-picky, but I spent money on this thing and I was hoping for something that was actually worth the $30+ I spent. I wasn't looking for a book that was trying to push it's own bias on the players.
Anyway. what did you guys think about it? Or, what to you think about my opinion?
And please be honest. If you liked it, tell me, don't let my thoughts make you scared to post your own.
xP
