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Title: Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete: Prima's Unauthorized Strategy Guide by Christine Cain ISBN: 0-7615-1642-5 Publisher: Random House (P) Pub. Date: 26 May, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2 (22 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Unathorized Means Incomplete And Innacurate
Comment: Stategy guides are often the lifeblood of many gamers who want to tackle a difficult or complex game. Having played through Lunar: The Silver Star when it was first on the Sega CD many years ago and now through Lunar: The Silver Star Story Complete for the Playstation, I must say that a strategy guide can be very useful for this game, at times. The dungeons are long, monsters tricky, and bosses a real challenge. Unfortunately you will find little help in Prima's Unauthorized guide. The inaccuracies in Prima's guide make it too unreliable to be a useful reference.
The most obvious fault that I can find with Prima's guide is that it is in black and white instead of color. While a number of stategy guides are now coming out in B&W to save you the more expensive price of a color guide, in Lunar's case such money saving becomes a real liability. Maps of dungeons and towns are difficult to read because they are in B&W and very unclear. Screen shots are even worse due to the B&W treatment, because their visibility is marred due to some very bad blurring. It looks like Prima was only interested in making a quick buck by having the first guide on the market instead of caring if gamers can understand what is happening in the book.
Beyond just the cosmetic problems with the book, the real trouble stems from the fact that the information is inaccurate. Trying to find that last, rare, hidden Bromide? Good luck hunting it down if you are using Prima's unofficial guide. Why, you may ask? Simple. Prima bases most of its info on the SATURN JAPANESE version, rather than our Playstation American version we just bought. Working Designs, the makers of Lunar, purposefully changed the location of items in our version to make the game more playable and for the sake of storyline. That way the only way to get all the correct info is to get the official stategy guide from working designs themselves.
In all fairness, Prima's unofficial guide does have one merit. The enemy and weapons guide in the book are useful. The weapons guide helps you plan out what you want to buy and how much it will cost you, while the enemy guide lets you know what you are going up against. Knowing the enemy can help you set up your parties formation and supplies as needed. Quite useful. But then the official guide gives you this info too, and in color.
If you need a stategy guide, buy the official one from working designs. The official guide is in color, comes with free stuff like stickers, and has the actual, correct info you need for beating Lunar right. In the case of "Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete: Prima's Unauthorized Strategy Guide," "unauthorized" means inaccurate and incomplete.
Rating: 1
Summary: Walkthroughs were OK, but better off not using it
Comment: Walkthoughs OK. They are mostly hand drawn, and in b&w. I found better help on webpages. I ended up not even using the book because of it's inaccuracy. There are many webpages out there that have full color screen shots that are not hand drawn, and dont spoil the game. I would not recommend this book.
Rating: 3
Summary: An Average Stategie guide
Comment: It could've been better, they do have great boss strategies and walkthroughs. There are some problems not all there info is accurate, like names of items and such, I think mainly because they got mixed up w/ the game that cam out in Japan too. They don't tell you what level you should be for certain bosses, but not most strategie guides do, I used this throughout the game and didn't find too much trouble w/ it. I havn't seen any others guides for this most excellent RPG.
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Title: Lunar 2 Eternal Blue: The Official Strategy Guild by Zach Meston, J. Douglas Arnold ISBN: 1884364071 Publisher: Sandwich Islands Publishing Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title:Lunar Silver Star Story: Collectors Edition ASIN: B00000JIUG Publisher: Working Designs Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $59.99 |
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Title: Final Fantasy Chronicles Official Strategy Guide by Dan Birlew ISBN: 0744000734 Publisher: Bradygames Pub. Date: 02 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Official Xenogears Strategy Guide by Ronald Wartow ISBN: 1566868254 Publisher: Bradygames Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Final Fantasy X-2 Official Strategy Guide by Dan Birlew, Elizabeth Hollinger, Wes Ehrlichman ISBN: 0744002850 Publisher: Bradygames Pub. Date: 15 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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