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Sonic Adventure DX: Prima's Official Strategy Guide

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This book is awesome because it gave me everything I needed to get past certain points in Sonic Adventure DX:Director's Cut. If I got stuck all I had to do is rely on my strategy guide to help me. It also told me how to unlock everything I wanted to in the game. This product is awesome!

This is an excellent game which will keep you entertained for hours. The colors and the details were slightly improved with respect to the original Dreamcast version (Tails looks more yellowish, Amy more violet for example). The frame rate issues have been slighlty improved.

It has some emulated Sega Game Gear games included, one of the disadvatages of this version is if you want to play the Chao garden game on the go as you need a Gameboy advance and a copy of Sonic advance instead of just a VMU.

The other disadvantage is the Gamecube controller, which is not really Sega's fault.

Overall, it displays nicely, it has some nice extras but I would still recommend to get the Dreamcast version, which is a great system anyways.

When I got SADX, I also got this guide book. I flipped through it a few times, just to see what it had. For the most part it looked like it wouldn't provide that much help, but I bought it anyway because it knew how to get the twelve gamegear titles. When I got home to play the game, I had the book right there with me. This is what I found out about the book: It isn't a walk-through guide book, which means that it doesn't progress with you as you play. Instead, it has everything jumbled up onto one page. There are things that it says you can get to once you get about half way through the game, and also on the same page there will be things that you can do in the very begining. It gets pretty confusing. I'd say that the only things that it has which are really helpful are these: how to beat the bosses, the maps (it's nice to have the maps, but you can get along fine without them), and how to get the gamegear titles. All this book really says is where all the little items (rings and such) are in the levels, and how to beat the bosses. It also is hard to read the action stage maps, so I would recomend just exploring them yourself. Overall, this book is good to have for reference and pointers, but it's not really an essential.

Arguably, most third-party strategy guides don't seem to really hit the nail on the head, especially for any fantaics of Sonic The Hedgehog. For anybody who has Sonic Adventure DX for the Nintendo Gamecube, they may have a hard grabber here. The Prima guide for Sonic Adventure DX is a little more complex when it comes to challenging through certain areas, that isn't it. It also is not as detailed as much as die hard fans from even the Dreamcast days Sega had couldn't hit. Although it isn't a over the top strategy guide, it will just have to do for gamers of the Sonic Adventure DX.

Maps: C+

Coverage for Character: C

Price: B-

Overall: C 1/2+