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US Mall 1 - Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World Official Strategy Guide (Official Strategy Guides (Bradygames))
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List Price: $17.99
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Manufacturer: BRADY GAMES
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 794
EAN: 9780744010671
ISBN: 0744010675
Label: BRADY GAMES
Manufacturer: BRADY GAMES
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 2008-11-04
Publisher: BRADY GAMES
Studio: BRADY GAMES
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Almost Useless
Comment: The Tales series usually have some fairly big games. While Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World is a spinoff of sorts, it is still a pretty immense game. One has to wonder why the guide doesn't really do any justice whatsoever for the game.
All the preliminary stuff isn't so bad. Getting through the basics is almost something a guide has to try to fail at. Bradygames doesn't falter at all. If you're having a bit of trouble understanding the game's mechanics, this section can help you out. Soon, however, this is where a lot of the helpfulness goes away.
The walkthrough, the meat and potatoes of any strategy guide is where the first big issue is. There's a walkthrough that is, for the most part informative. You'll get from Point A to Point B fairly easily as there's actually quite a bit of information. The walkthrough does the step by step thing BradyGAMES has done for nearly a decade now. Where the walkthrough fails however, is providing the player with any sort of detailed maps for the area whatsoever. Not only that, but most boss strategies aren't that great either. The boss strategies being useless isn't that big of a deal, but the lack of maps really is. The screenshots are often really big and blurry as well. On the whole, the walkthrough gets you through the game, but it is definitely not going to help you master it by any means.
Another really big problem with the guide is that there's a total lack of optional content here. There's really nothing about sidequests or anything, and Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World is quite a big game that has quite a few secrets. The guide doesn't even mention most of them. It's rather disappointing in that respect. There is data on the monsters you can capture at least, but even that lacks a lot of substance. There is data on the monsters you'll fight. There are also several appendices with info on items, weapons and the like.
Unfortunately, the guide is useful for one thing and one thing only: Getting you through the story. Other than that this guide isn't going to help you with much of anything. Much of the content such as extras is completely forgotten about and there are no maps. The screenshots are also very blurry.
In the end, it's hard to recommend this guide. The walkthrough, while informative isn't going to be of that much help considering that Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World is a fairly straightforward game. On the other hand, it is rarely, if ever, worth purchasing a strategy guide for an RPG for the walkthrough alone. Without adequate tips for training monsters, secrets and sidequests, the guide is about as useful for conquering the game as the instruction manual the game came with.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Incomplete information, basic walkthrough, only good for its artwork
Comment: 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.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Don't buy
Comment: Pretty much all this is is a walkthrough. If you have a question about the game or need help, just type it into Google and look for forums of others asking about the same thing. Or join [...] and post your own questions, response time is really good.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Poorly done for a Tales Guide
Comment: 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.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Almost Useless
Comment: The Tales series usually have some fairly big games. While Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World is a spinoff of sorts, it is still a pretty immense game. One has to wonder why the guide doesn't really do any justice whatsoever for the game.
All the preliminary stuff isn't so bad. Getting through the basics is almost something a guide has to try to fail at. Bradygames doesn't falter at all. If you're having a bit of trouble understanding the game's mechanics, this section can help you out. Soon, however, this is where a lot of the helpfulness goes away.
The walkthrough, the meat and potatoes of any strategy guide is where the first big issue is. There's a walkthrough that is, for the most part informative. You'll get from Point A to Point B fairly easily as there's actually quite a bit of information. The walkthrough does the step by step thing BradyGAMES has done for nearly a decade now. Where the walkthrough fails however, is providing the player with any sort of detailed maps for the area whatsoever. Not only that, but most boss strategies aren't that great either. The boss strategies being useless isn't that big of a deal, but the lack of maps really is. The screenshots are often really big and blurry as well. On the whole, the walkthrough gets you through the game, but it is definitely not going to help you master it by any means.
Another really big problem with the guide is that there's a total lack of optional content here. There's really nothing about sidequests or anything, and Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World is quite a big game that has quite a few secrets. The guide doesn't even mention most of them. It's rather disappointing in that respect. There is data on the monsters you can capture at least, but even that lacks a lot of substance. There is data on the monsters you'll fight. There are also several appendices with info on items, weapons and the like.
Unfortunately, the guide is useful for one thing and one thing only: Getting you through the story. Other than that this guide isn't going to help you with much of anything. Much of the content such as extras is completely forgotten about and there are no maps. The screenshots are also very blurry.
In the end, it's hard to recommend this guide. The walkthrough, while informative isn't going to be of that much help considering that Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World is a fairly straightforward game. On the other hand, it is rarely, if ever, worth purchasing a strategy guide for an RPG for the walkthrough alone. Without adequate tips for training monsters, secrets and sidequests, the guide is about as useful for conquering the game as the instruction manual the game came with.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Incomplete information, basic walkthrough, only good for its artwork
Comment: 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.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Don't buy
Comment: Pretty much all this is is a walkthrough. If you have a question about the game or need help, just type it into Google and look for forums of others asking about the same thing. Or join [...] and post your own questions, response time is really good.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Poorly done for a Tales Guide
Comment: 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.
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