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The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition Player's Strategy Guide

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This guide is not super in-depth and so it should be concidered more a collectible than a guide ...

First off, it is way too compressed to cover the four games (I, II, Ocarina & Majora) as deep as I believe it should have. In my opinion this guide should be twice as thick as it is (especially concidering it's selling price). It honestly seems like a bit of a rush job. There are a number of small errors throughout the guide and quite a few omissions of pertinent info. There should have been a competent editor on hand to put in a good final inspection before release.
The overworld maps are less than stellar and Zelda artwork/illustrations are minimal. This guide gives you the basic meat and potatoes (for the most part) and leaves everything else to speculation and exploration on your own.

If you are looking for a highly indepth guidebook this is not it ... I suppose some people like info kept to a minimum, but I would have preferred a book worthy of being concidered "collectible". I honestly believe the creators of this guide had zero passion for the project, or were put in a stranglehold by the upper-crust, because this guide could have been so much richer in content ... you'd think with the fact these games have played such a large part in the success of Nintendo that they would have at least invested a little more in it.

3 stars because it does help and also because I'm feeling generous today ;)

Do not order this guide, which does come from Nintendo Power directly. They distributed this particular guide, but its as if those that created it did not watch what they were doing. As one of the other reviewers said, the game itself is way to elaborate for it to be compressed into one book. The book severly lacks detail in instructions as a guide should provide so therefore it is not thorough.

But one major issue I have is the amount of errors in the Majora's mask section. There are so many errors it is rediculous. I would expect this from a 3rd party distributor, but this came from Nintendo themselves. I have counted at least 5 pages of errors in this section alone. I have played Ocarina of Time so much, its practically programmed in my head. So I haven't read through that section word for word to see if there are any errors there. But it doesn't mean there arent any. One clear error is towards the back of the guide located in the list of the pieces of hearts. For item #18 the Giant Gossip Stones, the arrows for the stone in the upper left points to where the grotto is for item #21 on the list, NOT the grotto for that particular quest. The one that they should be pointing at is just a quarter inch to the right. That is just one of many errors in this book. I am currently in the process of seeking a refund with Nintendo, and I paid twice what Ninendo asks for.

So if you want some advice, DO NOT get this book. If you want a guide for the games, get them separately.

Updated to add: I have counted at least 10 errors within the Majora's Mask section alone. I have not even looked up the other 3 games in it to see if there are any errors in the rest of the book.

I always like to play game with manual, so I don not need to spend a lot of time on it. For me, I like it.

I absolotly love the guide. It has helped me a lot. It arrived in excellent shape. I was really impressed by how quickly that I got the guide.