This week I’m taking a trip back to earlier this decade when the PlayStation 2 released, and not too far behind it came the release of Final Fantasy X. Despite personal opinions about the game, one cannot ignore how much it opened everyone’s eyes to what the new PlayStation could do graphics-wise, and really, few few other PS2 games pushed its capabilities to the limits like Squaresoft did. The cover of the guide–which conveniently matches the boxart for the game–while not that creative, splashes the gorgeous graphics on a larger scale and screams out to everyone to not ignore this game. It’s just so darn pretty.
Strategy Guide Releases this Week: RUSE and Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
It’s not that often we’re treated to two guides from two different publishers! Prima Games released their strategy guide for RUSE and BradyGames also released their highly anticipated strategy guide for Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep. The RUSE guide is only online at this time, most likely because it was never “officially” confirmed that the game was coming to North America at all. Hopefully they will publish a physical copy of the guide too, but that will most likely only happen if 1) the game is successful and 2) if there is a demand for it.
The strategy guide for KHBBS arrived in my mailbox today, and it looks as sharp as every other KH guide (aside from KH2). I was disappointed to not see Dan Birlew‘s name on the cover, but I’ve liked other guides of Casey Loe so I doubt I have much to worry about. Now all I need is my review copy of the game and I’ll be all set!
In My Mailbox – Red Dead Redemption Strategy Guide
I happily traded in my review copy of Arc Rise Fantasia and a few other games that were rotting on my shelf for Red Dead Redemption and its corresponding guide today. Numerous friends have been hounding me for weeks to get this game, and after hearing countless stories of its awesomeness and that you can tie people to railroad tracks, I’ve caved in. This game better live up to its hype and glory or I’ll be tying someone to railroad tracks in real life.
But back to guide talk.
This guide is surprisingly massive. It’s over 300 pages, and it has something in the back that greatly pleases me: a tear-out map. Now I have both a bookmark and a map of the Old West!
From flipping through its content, it looks like it has a decent, easy to use design that incorporates maps, screenshots, and text. The lead author is Tim Bogenn, and I’m not familiar with his work, but I have a few of guides of Rick Barba, the co-writer, around here somewhere.
Does this mean that I’m abandoning Transformers: War for Cybertron? Not in the least. However, I do have a rather ADD mind when it comes to gaming, so there will be a lot of flipping back and forth, especially since I have Ys Seven to review for another gaming site.
New Strategy Guides Releases: Mafia II and Kane & Lynch 2
It’s a week of sequels for guide releases. This week, it’s all about BradyGames with their latest guides for Mafia II and Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days. I personally have no interest in either game (and I’ve heard really bad things about Kane & Lynch 2), but I know plenty who have just loved Mafia II. If you can leave a severed horse head in someone’s bed, then I’m all in.
BradyGames typically does good work on their guides, so if either of these interest you, they’ll more than likely be worth your time to check out.
Wednesday’s Strategy Guide Cover of the Week: Bayonetta E-Guide
While looking for a fantastic strategy guide cover to debut on Wednesday’s Cover of the Week, I stumbled upon a free E-guide for Bayonetta on BradyGames‘ site. I have no idea when this e-guide showed up, but it simply fascinates me.
I’m not sure if anyone remembers, but BradyGames was supposed to put out a physical guide for Bayonetta. Not sure what happened (and it’s none of my business, really) but the publisher canceled the guide. So now there’s this e-guide (Bayonetta part one, Bayonetta part two) that looks like it’s exactly what their original, printed guide was supposed to be. I mean, have you ever seen an e-guide (aside from BradyGames’ and Prima Games’ e-guides) that looks like this? And for free??
I think I am going to have to do a comparison between this guide and FuturePress’ just to see 1) which is better (obviously) and 2) wonder at what we could have had in America.
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