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Makai Kingdom (Chronicles of the Sacred Tome) Official Strategy Guide

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Strategy guides were made for games like this (RPGs and Strategy games). They help you get to the end without missing some of the smaller, harder to find moments in the game, as well as revealing some of the more noteworthy secrets.

Makai Kingdom's strategy guides offers all this. It gives you a detailed listing of every major battle as well as all the secret battles. It tells you how to find and defeat all the secret characters. It has a listing of every item, weapon, and piece of armor in the game, as well as a listing of the abilities and character classes.

The gold in this book, though, is the section that helps you create the best character. It details the progression you should take to make your character as strong as possible, all the recommended abilities, and the best ways to getting the character from start to finish.

What I like about this book is that it reverses the pages that will spoil the story of the game for you, making it clear that they have no wish to ruin the experience. I'd recommend this guide in conjunction with the game.

Though not as packed and bursting to full as Double-Jump Books' other guides for Nippon Ichi's strategy games, that fact can be chalked up to the reality that, as a game, Makai Kingdom is hardly as in-depth as Disgaea or Phantom Brave. Regardless, this book does precisely what it should do, and that is provide the player with every last iota of information one would otherwise need months (or even years) to discern entirely.

Makai Kingdom is a tough little enterprise even for those veteran gamers who've cut their teeth on previous titles in the genre. The gameplay is not particularly intuitive and this guide does an excellent job of staving off an otherwise pervasive sense of frustration.