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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Unathorized Means Incomplete And Innacurate,
By A Customer
This review is from: Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete: Prima's Unauthorized Strategy Guide (Paperback)
Stategy guides are often the lifeblood of many gamers who want to tackle a difficult or complex game. Having played through Lunar: The Silver Star when it was first on the Sega CD many years ago and now through Lunar: The Silver Star Story Complete for the Playstation, I must say that a strategy guide can be very useful for this game, at times. The dungeons are long, monsters tricky, and bosses a real challenge. Unfortunately you will find little help in Prima's Unauthorized guide. The inaccuracies in Prima's guide make it too unreliable to be a useful reference.The most obvious fault that I can find with Prima's guide is that it is in black and white instead of color. While a number of stategy guides are now coming out in B&W to save you the more expensive price of a color guide, in Lunar's case such money saving becomes a real liability. Maps of dungeons and towns are difficult to read because they are in B&W and very unclear. Screen shots are even worse due to the B&W treatment, because their visibility is marred due to some very bad blurring. It looks like Prima was only interested in making a quick buck by having the first guide on the market instead of caring if gamers can understand what is happening in the book. Beyond just the cosmetic problems with the book, the real trouble stems from the fact that the information is inaccurate. Trying to find that last, rare, hidden Bromide? Good luck hunting it down if you are using Prima's unofficial guide. Why, you may ask? Simple. Prima bases most of its info on the SATURN JAPANESE version, rather than our Playstation American version we just bought. Working Designs, the makers of Lunar, purposefully changed the location of items in our version to make the game more playable and for the sake of storyline. That way the only way to get all the correct info is to get the official stategy guide from working designs themselves. In all fairness, Prima's unofficial guide does have one merit. The enemy and weapons guide in the book are useful. The weapons guide helps you plan out what you want to buy and how much it will cost you, while the enemy guide lets you know what you are going up against. Knowing the enemy can help you set up your parties formation and supplies as needed. Quite useful. But then the official guide gives you this info too, and in color. If you need a stategy guide, buy the official one from working designs. The official guide is in color, comes with free stuff like stickers, and has the actual, correct info you need for beating Lunar right. In the case of "Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete: Prima's Unauthorized Strategy Guide," "unauthorized" means inaccurate and incomplete.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Yeah, like THIS author ever played the game...,
This review is from: Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete: Prima's Unauthorized Strategy Guide (Paperback)
Well, maybe she did, but not too many readers of this guide would disagree with that statement if they have tried to use it. Inaccurate lists (as they refer to equipment found in the Japanese version of the game), incomplete (and confusing) maps, plot spoilers, and tons of white filler space are what this "guide" is riddled with. Most everything all the other reader reviews have said about this book is true. I couldn't suggest you buy the official guide (which is EXCELLENT) or even the July 1999 issue of Expert Gamer magazine, both of which give you something that qualify as a strategy. An obviously rushed job, expect no boss or fighting tactics to be found, nor any of the game's secrets. It's not the worst game guide in existence (believe me, I've read hundreds)--that honor still goes to Prima's Castlevania: Symphony of the Night guide (check my review for that as well for a good laugh). Still, avoid at all costs.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Prima's unoffical Lunar guide is a bad buy!!!,
By Andrew C. (State College PA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete: Prima's Unauthorized Strategy Guide (Paperback)
The main problem with this guide is that is based on the Japanese version of the game. Working Designs spent alot of time changing the game for an American audience, so the guide is basically worthless for the American version of Lunar:SSSC. Not to mention the poorly described dungeon maps and the poor black and white photos. The guide looks like it was done by a kid on his home computer rather than done by a professional publisher.
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