Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World Official StrategyGuide (Official Strategy Guides (Bradygames)) [Paperback]

BradyGames (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 4, 2008 | Series: Official Strategy Guides (Bradygames)

A NEW WORLD, A NEW ADVENTURE…

 

COMPREHENSIVE WALKTHROUGH STRATEGY

We guide you through all eight chapters of the main story, including tactics for defeating the bosses, advice on Elemental attacks, and side quest options.

 

MONSTER BOOK

Stats for over 200 monsters. Learn how to effectively battle them, as well as the strengths they add if they join your team.

 

ITEM LISTS

Weapons, Armor, Accessories, Synthesis Ingredients, and much more!

 

ARTES & SKILLS

Maximize Emil’s battle prowess with our in-depth coverage of all the fighting powers at his disposal.

 

COOKBOOK

Every delectable secret recipe from Wonder Chef is revealed for your culinary benefit.

 

 

Platform: Wii

Genre: Role-Playing Game

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: BRADY GAMES (November 4, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0744010675
• ISBN-13: 978-0744010671
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #899,492 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Incomplete information, basic walkthrough, only good for its artwork, December 3, 2008

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Asterisk Project "Kiryano" (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World Official StrategyGuide (Official Strategy Guides (Bradygames)) (Paperback)

This guide is straight-up not even worth purchasing, although it does have a thorough bestiary and a highly complete items section. However, along with minimal side quests and no "go out of your way just to get a legendary item" hints, all that this guide is pretty much useful for is a common-sense type walkthrough. If you truly want to achieve 100% within this game, I DO NOT recommend using this guide to achieve that goal. I have experience with playing most of the Tales series along with other games AND I've had my fair share at purchasing various guides for some of my games. By far, this guide happens to the worst issue of them yet.

-This guide does an incomplete and minimal inprofecient job at filling in side quests... there's not even a separate section for it like there usually is.

-Inadequate information for training your monsters (which happen to be one of the most essential tools for playing though this game) to be at their highest tier of ability.

-Great for art and taking in the great talent of Kosuke Fujima

-I would only recommend it if you're stumped on where to go or if you want to look for random treasure within a dungeon.

-Also, there is much more information missing that I still haven't noted, but if you purchase the guide today, you'll find out for yourself what exactly is missing.

-Not suitable for 100% achievement.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Poorly done for a Tales Guide, November 15, 2008

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Ajia Doyle - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World Official StrategyGuide (Official Strategy Guides (Bradygames)) (Paperback)

This guide is not the best Tales guide I have seen-and I have played most all of the games. Yes it has a basic walkthrough, and gives you some of the quest information. Many of the sidequests-most notably the ones with Richtor-have been omitted from the guide. There is not even a separate quests section-which is how it was done for most of the other Tales games. While the bestiary does contain all of the monsters, there is no information on the evolution of these monsters. The guide would have been much better if it included the evolutionary paths for the various monsters in the game-as the evolution of these monsters is an important factor of the game. Get the guide if you want tips on boss battles, help with the game's various puzzles-it details those out fairly well-or if you want to be able to check on where to go next. Otherwise it is not that helpful.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Pretty. Useless. Incomplete., January 22, 2009

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Orlando XXL "OrlandoXXL" (Orem, UT USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World Official StrategyGuide (Official Strategy Guides (Bradygames)) (Paperback)

We bought this guide expecting that it contained useful information about the monster evolution. Or that it contained useful synthesizing tips, or more information about what the different effects symbols meant, or that it contained more detailed spell/artes/skill information than the instruction booklet that came with the game, etc. It proved to contain just as much information about the mechanics of the game as the instruction booklet, plus a walkthrough. A real waste. The Monster guide had all of the monsters, but wasn't arranged in any useful order, and didn't contain anything except their basic stats. Nothing about monster evolution paths, recruitment tips, probable locales, etc. Don't waste your money on this (very) incomplete guide. We returned it the next day for a refund, and found more complete guides on the web for free.