Official Nintendo Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Player's Guide [Paperback]

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Book Description

Publication Date: October 2004

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Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Nintendo of America Inc (October 2004)
• ISBN-10: 1930206518
• ISBN-13: 978-1930206519
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.4 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #138,779 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Overall good guide, October 15, 2004

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Brett Wiese (Punta Gorda, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Official Nintendo Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Player's Guide (Paperback)

If your looking for a companion for Paper Mario, this guide fits the bill. The biggest problems with this guide consist of; Lack of information concerning some of the mini-games, layout of the information concerning backtracking; Its difficult to tell what you missed without having to go back to each area's maps and scan each box to see if there is something you can now do, an index or list of places to go back to when you get new ablilites/characters, would have helped this. Overall good, clean guide, great maps, complete in the information it does cover.

What will I get outta buying this guide that's not in the game?
Maps, maps and more maps. Maps are the main reason this guide is useful, and the information that is contained on the maps. However the game has built in info on the monsters, and there is a person you can pay coins to help find missing shine sprites or star pieces. In addition, for help with the puzzles, you can ask Goombella for hints and tips about them at any time. However having this guide certainly makes it easier to find/complete the said items.

Content Ratings: (out of 4)
Main Portion, Walkthrough: ****
Extras, Sidequests: ***
Item Index: ***
Monster Index: ****
Layout: **

I would buy this guide again if it cost: $10

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What can i say its very helpful, March 26, 2005

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Shadow "Chaos Control" (Station Square) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Official Nintendo Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Player's Guide (Paperback)

At the game paper mario TTYD i was so frausrated with not knowing how to do certain stuff walkthroughs on the internet would not help ' but getting this players guide from ebay has made me got good at the game ' also i was having trouble finding the last shine sprite and a few star pieces and this players guide helped

Good

Map details on the shine sprites/bages/star pieces

Specfic boss details

Checklist of shine sprites/badges/star pieces

Specfic Chapter details

Cons

It dont talk about the ending of paper mario TTYD

Overall the guide is good and you really should get it

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Son reads the book, March 25, 2006

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R. Vazquez - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Official Nintendo Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Player's Guide (Paperback)

The player's guide is a book with instructions on how to navigate the game and what tactics to use to beat the diferent playing levels. My son reads this book as he is playing; and when he is not playing, he also reads the book. His interest in beating the game forces him to read carefully, understand each instruction and follow it.
My son greatly enjoys playing this game and that's the ultimate measure for a child's toy. He keeps me updated on what chapter he is in, whom he has beaten, how many stars he has. He is proud of his success and progress playing the game. The game is clean with no sexual or crime or drug references.