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Shenmue: Prima's Official Strategy Guide

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I've had a lot of issues with Prima not delivering a guide with all the info that it could of had. Prima's guides frequently do not deliver all but the bare essentials and can be poorly put together, but the Shenmue Official Strategy Guide does not follow tradition. From start to finish, the guide is absolutely packed full of information regarding the game and solutions to the many puzzles within it. Full, complete, well designed color pages document each event as it should happen with exact date, time and location, along with full color screen shots. It also includes complete index's of all the bonus items you can collect throughout the game and where to obtain them, as well as a full index of all note-entrys that can be imputted into Ryo's journal. As well, it features complete biographys taken from Shenmue Online, that include virtually every single individual you see in the game, regardless of weither you're ever able to interact with them or not. This is not a guide to pass up, and even if you're not one for cheating, it's virtually impossible to see all there is to see in Shenmue without this kind of a guide. A must have.

This is a great strategy guidebook for SHENMUE. It really covers a lot of information in the game. I've already played SHENMUE all the way through and I thought i had covered everything in the game. Wrong! There is a lot that I misssed! There were things in the game that you could get that I just didn't know about. For instance you can win a couple of Sega Saturn games as prizes for Ryo's Saturn at his house!

I recommend you to read this book after you've already gone through SHENMUE at least once. You'll be suprised at how much you may have missed. It may even make SHENMUE even more rewarding the second time around.

If you loved SHENMUE as much as I did, then this book is a must have!

As per usual, this Prima strategy is great overall, but there's one big problem: the walkthrough and the maps are in two totally different sections. This may not seem like a problem at first, but for those of us that don't have photographic memories, constantly flipping from the front of the book to the back of the book is a real pain. It really becomes a problem in some of the more hectic situations in the game. Other than the map/walkthrough thing, this is a really well-done guide. If you can get past it's one flaw, then I definitely suggest you go and get this guide.

This one is one of Prima's top guides. It is very well put together and it did exactly what I buy guides for: To help me when I am really really stuck.

The amount of information in this book really is staggering. There are individual profiles for just about every character in the game, right down to their blood type!

But what really makes this guide great is the vast amount of extras! From strategies for the arcade games, to a complete list of the mini-collectibles, this guide is loaded. It also includes a very clever "sealed section" which I greatly appreciated.

The bottom line is that if you like Shenmue, this is the ultimate companion

I have never read through a guide that was so in depth with EVERYTHING. Even the least important NPCs (down to the random animals walking around) have a bio of some sort. I played this game when it was first released years ago, and after reading through the guide, I realized there were STILL items and cutscenes I've missed in the game.

This is definitely a must-buy for Shenmue fans. Even if not used to get through the game, it's an overall entertaining read.

When I purchased this strategy guide I did not expect it to be in such good condition. Upon receiving it in the mail it looked to be like a new guide all together, even the special hint guide in the back was still sealed! What a great deal for the price.

First off I was just ordering the strategy guide for collection purposes, I wasn't too interested in the quality of it as long as it wasn't in very bad shape, but the one I received was in decent shape. The purchase went smoothly and I got the guide in pretty quickly. Overall I'd give 10/10.

Really good. I bought this after I beat the game. And used it to find all the "Side Events" and extras. Its good for people that want or need help during the game and for people that want to find the extras etc. One cool thing is that in the back you can see ALL the characters in Shenmue and it has a little description on them. So its good. Very good walkthrough book. Definately worth the money.

This strategy giude is very informative if you want to beat the game without alot of trouble. Buy it now.

this game has a five star graphics, gameplay, and plotline. the graphics are like real people. the fighting scenes are great. in this game you can go to an arcade and play those games!! the plot is great and if fun to go to the city and get info and find all this stuff about the murder of ryo's father's death! this is a must bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!