Customer Reviews

Final Fantasy Anthology Official Strategy Guide (Bradygames Strategy Guides)

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If you want all the secrets, spells, hidden areas reaveled, and side quest info. It is in this book. The only thing missing is a world map showing the town names(no big loss), does not spoil the storyline. If you need to find every item it is listed and categorized. exellent.

I'm an absolute FF6 fanatic so I was kind of disappointed that there wasn't more space devoted to character stats, lists or town information (for either game). For FFV it'll certainly get you through the game if you're stuck, but the maps could've been better and I found quite a few things not mentioned in the book (which could be a good thing). However, if you're as stuck as I was at that point, any help is greatly appreciated! As for FF6, I thought the information was rather skimpy and bare bones, but if you're new to the game it'll help you out. If you're searching for a better guide for FF6 I'd suggest searching around for the Nintendo Power FFIII player's guide, which I have found to be the best for the game. Nice quality guide altogether.

I found the guide to FF5 superficial at best. There is info on characters' abilities and stats. The guide doesn't tell you where to find weapons/items/magic and doesn't give you a good world map. You can find all the info you need on the internet. Don't waste your money.

Although FFA was superbly done, this guide leaves...something to be desired. There wasn't much space devoted to character stats, and the mpas could have been presented in a better way. Overall, though, this guide will get you thourgh FFA, without giving away ALL of the plot, and giving you many of the secrets needed for mini-games, etc. A must buy for a FF fan, but not for many other people.

If found this guide very superficial. It's amazing that in Japan they have about 400 pages doveted to FFV alone while we get about 240 superficial pages for both 5 and 6. This book answers all the easy questions but is vague on many things that it should give more detail for. The beasitary is terrible for FFV. But what are you gonna do? This is the only guide available

Terrible writing and layout, missing information, scanty descriptions...all this made this strategy guide more frustrating than useful to me. It'd been years since I played an RPG and Final Fantasy Anthology has been pretty frustrating (though involving) to me, so I expected this guide to help me through. As it turns out, most of the time I have an easier time feeling my own way out than trying to use this guide.

I've only been playing Final Fantasy V so far so my judgments are based on the book's guide to that game.

Firstly, no world maps. The one found in the game is junk because of its small size, and the way author David Cassady guides you from point to point is so vague that you're better off just exploring on your own. The flashy layout of the book means that it's very hard to navigate through information. The lists (bestiaries, items etc.) are organized very poorly, and hard to read. The step-by-step walkthrough of the game is so scanty it's laughable -- often Cassady will just give you one screenshot of the entrance to a certain secret path and say, "Walk on and you'll eventually find the boss". Big help, indeed! And there are times when Cassady seems to deliberately mislead you -- the example that comes to mind right now is the battle with Shiva in Walz -- at Level 7, you couldn've have learned Fire2 yet, and Cassady oh-so-conveniently forgets to disclose that fact. It's possible to defeat Shiva without Fire2, but as the author of a game guide, Cassady should have told us. And it's always in leaving out the details that Cassady managed to confuse rather than clarify the game for me, by things like skipping over a step in describing the plot, neglecting certain aspects of the boss characters, and vague, uninvolving writing laid out poorly, flying here and there across the page until my eyes become all crossed.

The only use I found for this guide has been in locating hidden items in the game. Is that worth the purchase price? You be the judge.

This book is a big waste of money.

I bought this book for one simple purpose: I wanted my blue mage to get all the blue spells in FF5 (blue spells are ones that you learn after an enemy casts them on you). Well, there *is* a list of blue spells in the strategy guide, but there is *no* list of which enemies give you which spells. What a waste!

Another frustrating oversight is the lack of a world map! The strategy guide seems to assume that you know exactly where every town or dungeon is. For certain optional areas or side quests, the lack of direction can leave you wandering around for hours searching for "Rikk's Village" or the "Easterly Falls."

Another oversight in this paltry guide is the horrible maps. The guide's maps are tiny and very difficult to read. They aren't complete, for one (they only show the overview of an area -- not the individual rooms). Also, unlike previous Final Fantasy strategy guides (such as the one for FF2 in the US), there is no indication of what is in various treasure chests. It is extremely helpful to know what the treasure chest you are trying to get to contains -- if it's just a potion, you can save some effort, but if it's a powerful new sword, you want to make sure to get it. This guide does not help you make such decisions.

One final oversight in this unfortunate guide is in the FF5 section. A major part of that game is obtaining "Job Points" to gain new abilities in the various character jobs. Different enemies give different amounts of Job Points. Does this strategy guide tell you how many Job Points you can get from the enemies? No! So, you're left on your own to find the areas where you can gain job levels more quickly.

Avoid this guide. You're better off finding a good net walkthrough.

this book was ok, but i had some problems as this book was not detailed enough. also, the author mighta been preoccupied cuz some things made absolutely no sense. overall, an all right book. hey,a so-so book is better than no book! kudos to you.

According to my son he says it was an awesomeguide and he still refers to it! He'd recommend it to anyone.

This book includes information on both FFV and FFVII. The information isn't that bad, but I felt that I was left hanging many times, especially in Final Fantasy V. The bestiaries are almost non-existent and there is no world map present in either game's section. This can be very disturbing. However, this is the only guide out there for this game, so I will sadly recommend it.