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Super Mario 64: Survival Guide

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I swear I cannot get thru a game without some sort of guide. This one did not help me so much. First of all, it is in black and white, which I was not expecting. So that makes it hard to tell what part of the game they are talking about. It really is not much a walk thru either. I guess I have been spoiled by Primas' full cover step by step guides for playstation. This guide is ok if you are already a video game pro and just want to see what you may have missed. But for those of us that can't get past the first few levels without a guide - I do not recommend this one. It also is over priced for what you get.

Its safer to go with more accepted companies when choosing a guide. Avoid this and buy a Nintendo or Prima version. This guide, although fair, could use a lot more. Its simply not worth paying the money to buy this subpar material when you could be getting some actually well-written and thoughtfully putout guides. It seems Douglas Arnold and Mark Elies, if they have written over 30 guides, could have done a better job on this.

Boo

Mike London

I always buy a guide for the games I purchase because I don't want to spend 8 hours running in circles trying to solve a puzzle...a guide is great when you are at a deadend. I pulled out my old Nintendo 64 and Super mario 64 for my son to play, this guide was packed away with it. I was amazed at the lack of details in the guide. The guide will allow you to complete the game, but there's not much there about the extras - where do I find the flying cap etc... Sometimes the instructions are a little vague, without the details you can still spend a lot of time trying things over and over and over...

The guide will get you through the game, but if you want details look somewhere else.

Sometimes, when they make strategy guides for video games, they absolutely don't seem to make it right. There always seems to be something missing here, that the company making the game has even better. That is the case with Super Mario 64: Survival Guide by J. Douglas Arnold. Out of all the strategy guides that were made, this one was the worst ever made. There really isn't a lot to focus here outside of there is no 3-D Maps, to help you locate any of the items, not enough text, and especially, the tips here really aren't as detailed as the book claimed it has. If you have this one, you're better off trying to get the original strategy guide Nintendo created, because this one is one that Bowser always dreams of.

This book is awsome.It has helpful information