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this has to be one of the worst guides I have ever purchased, buy only if you was to collect it. This guide lists the titles, but NEVER tells you how to get them, I had to check online to get guide me thru the quest to get the tiger blade (which is missable). This guide is missing too much info, where do I start. It does tell you how to do some of the game's sidequests, but the ones that are practically useless though. Another Brady Games blunder. Only buy this guide if you are collecting guides, and love the art in ToV. It also never tells you how to get the hidden artes in the game, it doesn't even describe the character's mystic artes.
The only thing I use this guide for is looking at enemy drops because it's quicker than scrolling through a walkthrough. In summary, find any online walkthrough, download it and follow it. This guide is completely lacking when it comes to guides for the titles and also in guiding for many of the side quests. The lack of maps removes any advantage it might have over walkthroughs. This is the one guide that inspired me never to buy a strategy guide again. After playing a bit into the game using the strategy guide I looked at an online walkthrough and found that I had missed an absurd amount of quests that could not be completed later due to the incompleteness of this guide. It will serve you better than this guide.
But if your looking for a guide that contains everything you need, then this is not what you looking for. If i wanted any sidequest or extra information i was forced to walk downstairs to get on my PC and look at an F.A.Q. It does the same thing with Artes, it lists all the arts which is nice, it also lists all the altered artes and what skills you need on a weapon to turn an arte into its altered variation which is again helpful. A guide is supposed to be a replacement for a F.A.Q. This guide provides a great walkthrough, however has no dungeon maps for one, which isn't a huge loss.
a guide is supposed to contain ALL that stuff.If you don't care about extra artes and costume changing titles, and just extra side quests as a whole, then the guide might be for you. But again the guide is lacking, it does not tell you what levels you learn the artes, and it also doesn't tell you how to get the 'secret' artes you learn from certain sidequest events.This guide was good as far as a walkthrough goes, but that was all. My biggest disappointment with this guide was the lack of walkthrough for the extra content. If you are familiar with the Tales of Series, then you are familiar with certain aspects of the Game, such as the Title system, and the Arte system. For each character you have a list of their titles, but it does not tell you how to acquire those titles which is frustrating when you trying to get a certain one, then realize you missed out on it, because the guide never includes how to get this title.
that is the major reason i avoid F.A.Q.s is because the massive walls of text.
One problem that we had was that the first copy of this Guide that we received was missing 63 pages due to a manufacturing error. The product has lots of useful information but we did have a few questions that were not answered in the book so we went to a walkthrough and found them. However, the seller we dealt with was kind enough to exchange it for us.
I buy guides in order to help me accomplish my goal of getting EVERYTHING. However, what this guide lacks is side quest coverage that is essential to complete 100% of the game.
Don't get me wrong, this guide will help you get to the end of the game, but you'll miss out on the extra stuff along the way. Furthermore there is barely any information on the different cut scenes that helps to flesh out your party's personality and history.
I found the Extras section of the guide lacking in detail about the different side quests and how to complete them. No matter what the case - for a completionist like me, I find this absence of content disappointing.
I'm a completionist when it comes to RPG games. This Signature guide has a great storyline walk through and contains the standard character bio/skills and monster guide.
It seems to me that this guide was either rushed to production or the Bradygames Staff based this guide off of a beta copy of the game that did not include all of the side quests or skits.
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