Legend of Legaia : Prima's Official Strategy Guide [Paperback]

Bart Farkas (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 30, 1999 | Series: Prima's Official Strategy Guide

Statistics for all weapons, armor, and ra-seru
Exclusive information on your enemies
The inside scoop on magic
Locations of hidden items and genesis trees
Battle tactics and art techniques for each character
Complete puzzle solutions

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Can Legaia and the far off lands survive the mist without your help?

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Prima Games (March 30, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761520880
• ISBN-13: 978-0761520887
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.4 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #858,026 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor Quality, April 2, 2005

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S. Rhodes - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Legend of Legaia : Prima's Official Strategy Guide (Paperback)

Legend of Legaia is an incredible game. But this guide is not. The only good thing about this guide is the arts list for each character. That's about the only help you'll really get from it.

Compared to other RPG guides, Prima's "Legend of Legaia" guide is shallow. Where are the maps? The comprehensive items lists? The bestiary? The secrets? They're all absent from this guide.

The walkthrough was perhaps the worst part. There's nothing but text and screenshots. Some screens are in the wrong place, and I began to wonder how exactly anyone could get anything from this guide. There were no maps, and they didn't mention the items I could obtain in an area. They mention items on the way to the target, but never anything off the beaten path.

Then there were the boss strategies. They had HP listings for some of them. Other times they either didn't have HP listed or they said something like "He has around 13,000 HP" which in turn doesn't tell me a whole lot. At least some of the strategies were good, but they didn't mention the basic tip you give anyone who goes at Legend of Legaia. You heal almost every turn (even at GameFAQs they mention that in nearly every FAQ).

The guide was also absent of basic enemy information. Where was the bestiary? What could I steal from the enemy? What did the enemy drop? Better yet, WHAT ENEMIES WILL I RUN INTO IN A CERTAIN AREA? The guide doesn't say.

Then there are the appendices in the back. They had a list of seru magic (not very handy, we know what enemies are seru just by looking for a symbol next to them in the game) and an accessories list. The accessories list and whatnot were out of order. There WAS an items list, but again: out of order. They could've at least put it in alphabetical order to make it easier. Secrets items (such as the Chicken Heart, and Chicken King) got little or no mention at all.

The entire guide read like an FAQ... only with screenshots. Seriously, if you want to MASTER Legend of Legaia, this guide isn't the way to do it. If you just want to beat the game without getting anything, the guide isn't even needed. Save your money and go to GameFAQs for help. There people will actually help you master the game and find everything. Oh, and there the people actually HAVE secrets.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars In one word: poor, August 2, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Legend of Legaia : Prima's Official Strategy Guide (Paperback)

The hint book is a good walkthrough of the game Legend of Legaia. The Legend of Legaia is a good game that seems to be a watered down version of Final Fantasy VII. Since the game is a "watered down" RPG, there aren't any big secrets or puzzles that need to be discussed. Unfortunately that is all that this hint book really covers.

The monster list doesn't include basic stats (hit points, magic points, items) which is common to all other RPG hint books. The items list is erronious in parts. There is no discussion as to battle tactics, or how to beef up your characters.

The walkthrough is fairly well done, but there are still issues with this. The main one, in my mind, is that there are no maps! One would think that if you are going to pay money for a guide they could at least supply maps. There are also errors in the hint book (most notably times in which objects become avialable). My final gripe with the book is that the last two dungeons (the most difficult ones) have no walkthrough, just a couple of cursory words.

All in all the majority of the walkthrough is done well. There are no battle tactics, no maps, and erronious information, however. My adivice would be to find a walkthrough on the web, it will save you time, and probably be more accurate.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars AVOID THIS BOOK, January 20, 2006

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Chad Roberts - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Legend of Legaia : Prima's Official Strategy Guide (Paperback)

This book is a waste of money. It's full of missed items and mistakes. The walthrough provides no help at all. Find better walkthroughs on the internet and save your money!