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N3: Ninety-Nine Nights (Prima Official Game Guide)

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I'm a habitual game guide buyer. I like knowing how to get the secrets, I like knowing where to find my super items, easter eggs etc. Sadly, this guide just doesn't deliver. It's vague and sometimes just plain wrong.

Here are some examples:
Weapon upgrades - each character has several weapons of different levels. Ostensibly it lists where and how to get each one. In reality this isn't so. Sometimes the weapon isn't there. Sometimes it says 'In a chest on this level'. So, you look at the map. There are 15 chests marked on the map. Which one is your weapon? Well, guess you'll be opening all of them to find out.

How do you unlock the 'True Ending'? According to this guide you have to do a mission on a character and complete the game with all the other characters. Except... the mission is not one of that character's missions and there is no 'free play' mode where you can do any mission with any character.

How about confusing items? There's the statue pieces... hey, the guide can tell you what text will be on the item when you get it! Even if the text isn't very helpful...

In short, forget this book and go look at Gamefaqs or the xbox forums.

i got this gude this week and its told me nothing i couldent figure out myself exept the level of the charicters/enemies and thier stats on those levels. alot of the book is basic to say the least and dosent give more info on the things your looking for ie wepon location etc. when it does tell you about the treasure chests, thier in the wrong location in the book verses the real location in the actual game. so pretty much, the books a let down. but if you want to know charicter stats and enemys, then buy at your own risk.

I've been buying and reading alot of guides lately and I've noticed a trend. A lot of these Prima guides seem to be written by this Fernando Bueno guy (this guide's author). I don't know why they keep giving him these assignments, because if you scan the reviews of this guide and the other ones he has authored you'll see a lot of poor reviews. I know it's not really nice to call someone out personally, but it's not right that this guy can keep putting out such a shoddy, low-quality product that gives gamers nothing of value.
Basically, if you get a Prima guide written by Fernando Bueno you can be guaranteed that it will be a dumbed-down, watered-down mess. He uses language and slang that is about the reading level of a 10-year-old, which is a real insult to the intelligence of anyone with higher than a 5th-grade reading level. Also, his guides are light on substance and rely mostly on gimmicky sidebars which could have easily just been presented in a bullet-point format. Instead these "nuggets" of insight are presented with an exaggerated font and cheap flair so that they take up more space on the page than they are worth. I've now read several guides by this Fernando Bueno guy and they are all the same: poor quality, dumbed-down products which at best provide nothing worth reading, and at worst provide misleading, inaccurate "tips".
Bottom line: if you see a guide you're considering to buy, and the author is "Fernando Bueno" - don't buy it. You'll be sorry you did, and you'll just be encouraging Prima to put out more worthless guides by this two-bit hack. If you don't believe me, just read the other reviews; you'll be glad you did.