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Versus Books Official Pokemon Crystal Perfect Guide

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Versus Books Crystal Perfect Guide has everything the Gold and Silver Perfect Guide has and more. Not just the Crystal exclusive information, but information on items, including held items, Key Items and Mystery Gift Items. It even tells you where to find hidden items with itemfinder!!! They have extended their coverage on breeding and hatching time for eggs and organized their Pokedex alphabetically. I appreciate this because one doesn't have to look at the index to find the Pokemon page # anymore. Certain Pokemon that learn Crystal exclusive moves don't have a list of moves they learn in Gold/Silver so you'll have to reference the Gold/Silver Guide to find them. The guide has one section of a page listing the Battle Tower information, and has a slightly better coverage of it than Prima's Guide; I still would have liked to see at least a full page dedicated to it. The guide is still riddled with errors here and there; typos and misplaced pictures or Pokemon names in trainer rosters, but that is to be expected in a book of this size. The authors are still somewhat subjective in their ratings of your favorite Pokemon but do a better job of reminding you to "catch 'em all". Versus Books still perpetuates this myth that each badge increases the level of Pokemon you can control by 10. My personal experience shatters this misinformation along with a kind Pokemon player I met last year when I started playing Pokemon. (If you want obedience from a traded Pokemon of a specific level, you MUST have THE correct badge) The guide is massive, offers a great deal of good information and is the closest to the best guide you can get for Pokemon Crystal, A lot of work and time went into this and and it shows (maybe a little more time to make corrections here and there would have been nice). This guide is what the Gold/Silver guide should have been, nearly everything you need to get the most out of your gaming experience.

Okay, it has a full walkthrough, a Pokedex, Breeding Guide, a "Itemdex" and "Movedex." What more could you ask for? It helped me immensely and taught me secrets I wouldn't have found out in a million years. Versus Books does a MUCH better job than Nintendo, who didn't even bother to tell you what Pokemon the Gym leaders have. All in all, if who have a Crystal game or are planning to buy one, get this too.

This guide really is deserving of Perfect Guide. But if your looking for a thinner guie like say Prima (Also recommended) is a good guide as well.

The guide explains just about everything you need to know about the game. This tells you about the difference between Gold and Silver and Crystal. The walkthrough is very organized and not so many errors are in the guide. The walkthrogh also explains how often Pokemon appear on routes, and tells what pokemon each trainer in each area has. I STILL Say you shouldn't trust what they say about the Pokemon, experiment. Also the guide as a sense of humor as well (good ol' Casey Loe).

Now are you ready for the best part? The Pokedex is the most detailed Pokedex of all time! Better then their Pokemon Gold&Silver guide and the Pokemon Yellow guide! However, the pokedex is like 160 pages long! Thats more than half the guide! So the only negative was I was hoping that they could at least have an Index in the back of the book or something. Also unlike previous guides they actually have an items list!!! That's great.

Overall, I think that for a Pokemon Guide its a bit thick but for effort the guide gets an A

Overall:
Positive
+Beautiful Pokedex
+The best walkthrough in the history of Strategy Guides
+Good sense of humor
+Crytal Clear Screenshots
+Good Tables

Negative
-Guide is a little thick for a Pokemon guide
-An Index needs to be with Pokedex

Other than that this is probbly the best Pokemon guide ever made, better get it before VERSUSB BOOKS sells out!

Well, I got this guide last Christmas with my Pokemon Crystal, and I love it! This guide has soooo much information on Pokemon in the Pokedex, and even tells you which Pokemon should be breeded so you can have a great baby Pokemon! There are precise walkthroughs for every area, and has Pokemon appearance charts for Crystal as well as Gold and Silver! Every trainer and gym leader has stats and guides to help you on your way to becoming the Champion! And there's a FULL item list and where to get each item! Isn't that great! I have almost beaten the game with this guide, and it has helped me so much! I'm not even a real Pokemaniac either, yet I just can't stop playing this game! I would reccomend this guide to anybody who gets Pokemon Crystal, Gold, or Silver, because the title doesn't lie when it says, "PERFECT GUIDE"

I bought the Pokémon Crystal game and I got totally stuck. Once I bought this guide it all became a whole lot easier. They have complete maps, trainer information, and a Pokédex for all 251 Pokémon! This is the best guide for the Pokémon Crystal game! If you have the game you need this guide!

Pokemon can be a pretty hard game and sometime you are in over your head if you are then you might be someone who needs or wants this. It is one of the best guides you can find and every secret is told. This is an exelent gift to give to GBC fans or POKEMON fans.

this is by far the best pokemon strategy book i have ever read.
it has everything a trainer could ask for,including tips on how to catch the legendary dogs and the hoh and lugia.
seriously,i couldnt have made it to the top (i became a poke master in this game) without the help of this book.
plus theres the most beautiful suicune LARGE poster :)
buy it! its a good buy!~

At first, I thought that this guide was unusual. But it is great! They tell you how often certain pokemon come out, what the trainers are using, suggestions, a pokedex, and where the once-a-week-siblings are and what day they appear.

When I first got Pokemon Crystal, I said to myself I'm finally going to get a REAL strategy guide for this game. The Versus guide is my first ever gameboy strategy guide, and it left a great impression. It has a very extensive and detailed walkthrough that covers so much, from the pokemon in a trainer's roster and the money you obtain after beating them, to all the secret areas and items. At the beginning is a page of difference between Gold/Silver and Crystal, and the basics of the game. The pokedex is eye-popping; every pokemon in the game (and not in the game) is shown with the moves it learns naturally, HM and TM-able moves, egg-teachable moves and stats on things like defense, sp. defense, attack, etc.

Whenever you arrive at a new route/town you will be delighted to find a well written description of the things you can do there, events that take place and of course the gyms. Each gym has a good chunk of the page dedicated to it with info on the gym minions and leader.

This guide has a map for every area in the game; all very clear and sometimes with paths drawn through them to guide you. And that's covering only a fraction of the things in this book. And while you may find a few errors in some places (I saw a picture of a Hitmonchan where there should've been a picture of a Teddiursa), that doesn't take away from the overall quality of the guide. I recommend it for anyone playing Crystal, it's my number 1 choice.

Compared to the "Official" pokemon player's guide, this guide has plenty more unveiled secrets than your average guide. I found it to be very informative. I must admit that I found a few errors, but compared to all the cool tips and hints you get, it's not that big of a deal. I love how there's an introduction for each pokemon, instead of just plain old stats. Having this guide makes playing the game alot more fun, and that's what guides are all about. Well, besides guiding. Hehe, you get my point.