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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great to Give You a Leg Up, April 10, 2007
Whenever Nintendo comes out with a game, you can be sure Nintendo Power will have a guide. They make some of the best guides in the business, although they always seem to have little problems with them. Their Super Paper Mario guide is no exception, but it's still a pretty useful tool for those wanting to conquer the game and find everything there is to be found.
Super Paper Mario has a ton of stuff to be found throughout the adventure. There are so many hidden secrets and passages. Going at it on your own can be tough. Luckily, this guide is a savior in the places where you're stuck. It's got detailed maps, all the puzzle solutions, and it isn't really all that difficult to use either.
The guide begins, like most of them do these days, with the game basics, which is more or less a rehash of what's in your instruction manual. However, the guide also provides advanced tips that aren't in your manual, and some of them are pretty helpful. Granted, there's nothing in this section that you can't (or won't) figure out on your own, but it makes the guide handy for beginning gamers as well as expert gamers. After that we get into the characters and their skills, and then into the Pixls. These descriptions of your characters and Pixls are pretty brief, but a guide doesn't have to go on and on for pages and pages about something so simple. Nintendo Power gets right to the point.
Afterwards we get into the walkthrough which is written in Nintendo Power's tried and true formula. If you've been using Nintendo Power guides for a while then you know what I mean. Each area has an introduction, a map, and the maps of course are decorated. Showing you what's in every box, where every item is etc. Neat. They also continue to use the point by point system that seems to have worked in their guides for years. By that I mean, you'll see a "1" marked on the map. Now find "1" in the text and read what it says you need to be doing at that location. It's fairly simple and straightforward to use. Likewise, the guide is made easier to use than previous guides. If you really just don't feel like reading for when you should flip, the guide will show you on the maps as indicated by a blue box (as well as a point). The walkthrough also provides you with a pull out map of Flipside, although it's inserted in a rather awkward place. If there were any criticism of the walkthrough it'd be that once again, the boss strategies seem lacking. The guide gives you a great offense, but like many Nintendo Power guides, it lacks in giving you a strong defense. Most bosses, however, aren't hard to figure out. The screenshots throughout the guide are also crystal clear, and they're taken in 16:9 mode, in case you're wondering (not that that really makes a big difference if you're playing 4:3). They accurately depict everything. On the whole, the walkthrough for this guide is just about perfect. It doesn't waste time, and it gets right to point.
There are more goodies after the walkthrough. There's a list of all the items, recipes and cards you can collect. Under the cards section is where you'll find stats for each and every enemy you'll encounter in the game. They also go into detail on all the treasure maps you can buy in flipside, as well as the pit of 100 trials. Finally there's "Other Things to Do," which is more or less just more secrets that detail about the games mini-games. It's all neatly organized and neatly packaged.
Nintendo Power doesn't mess around. They don't explain anymore than they need to, but like all their guides, it requires a lot of the reader too. By that I mean you'll spend a lot of time page flipping between the maps and points. Luckily, as I said, Nintendo Power gets down to business and most of the details listed in the points aren't long. Still, I think it's about time Nintendo Power started making their guides a little easier to navigate. In some of the later stages of the game, it can be easy to lose your place on the map.
It's a great guide. The perfect guide. It just has little shortcomings. Still, if you need a good guide to Super Paper Mario, you might as well make it this one.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Paper Aid, April 14, 2007
When it comes to video game systems right now, Nintendo has some of the most innovative games out on the market with the Wii. Although there are expecting to be many exciting games later on, there are some good games out that deliver thanks to the strategy guides like this one of their latest game Super Paper Mario. This strategy guide is very comprehensive for new Wii owners who have this game. It details great advice and maps in near perfect display for easy steps to mastering the game, and how to use Mario, Bowser and Peach within the fun of the game, as they assist Mario to save the Mushroom Kingdom. If you own Super Paper Mario, than you should get this guide for the Wii.
Price: A
Convience: B+
Maps: B 1/2+
Overall: B+
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
GREAT guide!, September 22, 2007
My son loves his new Wii (and all of his other Nintendo gaming)and along with every game he loves to get a guide. While some of his friends say they won't use them as "cheats" he finds that he gets more out of the game finding "secret codes" and such that let him do more. We don't feel it's a cheat in any way, just a great compliment to make the games more fun. The plus is that it means is doing more reading than he would if he were just playing the games and for young kids, reading is always a great thing, especially when they are very interested in the material. We have bought MANY of these Nintendo Guides and they are all GREAT!
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