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I bought this book for my daughter who has the Explorers of Time DS game. We received the book in just a few days, and she is very happy with the info in the book. My two kids reference this book at time while playing the game.
The two books are excellent, and provide a link with two grandsons who live in Switzerland.they have a copy and I have a copy so we read together over the phone
It is useful for choosing strategies and completing every aspect of a game, but it is not a story book. The Dungeon pages in this guide do list info about things such as item and level restrictions. It is more akin to an Atlas or Encyclopedia and is typically used as reference by serious players. This game has no significant maps, and the only grapical data you might actually need (the footprints) is absent from this guide anyway.
This guide is a good example of why I never have liked to buy Prima guides. In the past, one could always turn to Nintendo Power for higher quality guides, but now that the NP guides are no longer made, we're stuck with Prima. Also, this guide does have a full Pokedex complete with numerical lv. The Dungeon overview pages will not tell you what items to expect to find in each dungeon, so you either have to guess or keep your own notes.
I would have much rather seen level ranges of Pokemon within the dungeon and a list of items found therein (as well as rarities), instead of useless info about the moves of Pokemon in the dungeon. The color coding for different sections of the Pokedex is nice. 1 stats, however, it does NOT list every place that the Pokemon can be found (it only tells one place), and the footprints (useful for the Sentry minigame) are not listed either.Now for the bad news. The data sections (from the quiz at the start of the game to the item tables) are not alphabetized, a fact that makes the tables needlessly hard to use. This is a Prima Guide, so one expects it to have some errors and oversights.
The basic strategy info on Pokemon moves from each Dungeon is pretty useless. While the info is true, I think most Pokemon fans already know this. Also, I dislike that the Recommended Path for the game was placed in front of the the Game Mechanics section. It would make more sence to place it between the Game Mechanics and Walkthrough sections, making it harder to ruin the story for yourself when you flip to the Game Mechanics section for a particular piece of info.In short, my advice is to skip this guide and print off a decent walkthrough from a free site. There is no list of Wonder Mails so you can get the Pokemon exclusive to each version. Let's start with the good news. With the non-alphabetized data sections, those who own this guide will likely find themselves printing off needed info from an online walkthrough anyway.A side note for those who don't know what a game guide is (and think that perhaps it is a book about Pokemon for kids to read): A game guide (a.k.a.
The item tables do not list the selling price of items. Don't expect to find suggested partners for each starter, either. Strategy Guide) is a publication that is supposed to tell everything about a game. While it does require some reading skills, it is only useful to those who have a copy of the games (which games also require reading skills).Signed, Pamela
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