The guide is a piece of junk
591171
The guide is a piece of junk. it moves 1/4" back and forth. No way can you cut something with any accuracy. It also binds when sliding every time. No bearing, just cheap plastic guides that bind.
3467108
I cannot tell you whether or not I love the product because guidebook/set up book measures 4 in. and the font size is unreadable even with glasses. And if, using my camera lens, I can get the text just about big enough to read I still can make neither heads tails of the images in the booklet. I laid all the parts out and spent well over an hour trying to figure out what went where. I did figure out how to turn the camera on and off, so it appears that there's a battery installed. I don't know if there's a chip install. And no chip came with the camera. One of the reasons I bought the camera was to use my car. I'm not hundred percent sure, because I never did get the rest odds and ends of parts identified, but it does appear that those that come with the camera are set up for bicyclists, not motorists. I contacted the company asking for instructions. I did not go the extra mile to put down information on YouTube or the like. For now I'm giving this a one star--  again not because the product that deserves that-- but because the product with no information/ set up guide is useless. I purchased this product at a discount nor to give a fair review. I'm regret that I'm unable to review the product itself.
4058640
Redundant and only slightly informative.  If you want a guide book, buy something else.
1982087
The Dark Cloud 2 Prima Guide is yet another guide by Prima; Another Guide that isn't worth your money.
Many people who have read previous guides by Prima will know that no Prima guide is without errors -- and this is no exception. The Dark Cloud 2 guide is full of information, but, sadly, a lot of it is incorrect.
Such things like their Weapon List are incorrect, And even some of their monster information.
Another thing is they fail to help us with some of the Mini-Games, like Spheda, they don't provide us with any helpful hints or anything, which would be quite helpful, as Spheda can be VERY frustrating.
One huge annoyance is that they don't list where and when you need to get the Power-Up items, and without those items, you're going to have a hard time playing this game.
Even though this guide is ridden with errors, it's very pretty to look at, it has a lot of Official Artwork in it, Pictures of Monsters, Screenshots, etc. Unfortunately, just being pretty won't save this guide...
Apparently, Versus Books, who does a great job on Guides, was supposed to release a guide for Dark Cloud 2, but they seemed to have dropped off the face of the earth. If Versus Books DOES come out with a Dark Cloud 2 guide -- buy theirs, and forget Prima ever released this guide.
Don't waste your money.
1948185
This guide has a lot of useful information but only if you are going to one of the large cities listed in the guide.  However it is very confusing and un-intuitive to access.  There is a "Travel Guide" icon on the touch screen which Garmin tech support tells me that it is nonfunctional because the Garmin Travel Guide is not completely compatible with my Garmin Nuvi even though it is listed as an accessory for my particular Nuvi.  No matter which city I enter in the search bar in the "Travel Guide" it takes me to someplace in Maine.  Yes, I called Garmin Tech Support on two seperate occassions because I was certain the card was corrupted and not working correctly.  Their only response was to walk me through a number of confusing steps to access the information that I want.  Of course these steps are forgotten by the next time I want to use it and it takes me 10 or 15 minutes to figure out again which is very frustrating.  My recommendation is to save your hard earned $50 bucks, go to AAA and get a free(if you are members) tour book.  It will have a lot more information for a lot more destinations, even smaller towns.
4851214
I bought this guide because of the good reviews it received.  However I was disappointed.  It is badly structured (eg: it doesnt start with how to use your new Kindle - that comes at the end), it is badly written and does not have easy to follow instructions in the way most guides do.  Do I regret buying it - no, but I wouldnt recommend it.
2205711
The guide is fine for helping you solve the many puzzles, but when the game has difficulty spikes, this book is next to worthless. Also, on the ship, the book leaves out an action sequence. Unfortunately, this was the spot I needed the most help. Instead of buying this guide, just spend some time reviewing a couple of internet walkthrough sites.
3299464
This was the first Brady Games guide in 15 years that I was actually disappointed with.  This book contains only information that should have been in the game's manual to begin with.  While it does include lists of powers, weapons and movement types the guide is sadly lacking in any maps.  Since they have foregone the inclusion of maps this book also does not include the locations of any of the collectible blue and green information icons in the game.  The guide is short and has some eye candy in the form of a few pages from the comic that will be published in conjunction with DC Universe Online.
2611536
I have used a few dozen travel guides in my life but I have never come across one so full of inaccuracies, so poorly written, and so illogically constructed as this one.

To start off, the history section sums up a few thousand years of Bangladeshi history in a couple pages of sweeping generalizations and the text is sorely lacking in organization.  To make up for the atrocious writing, a time-line is provided to help the reader make some sense of the jumble in the prose.  The dates in the time-line, however, are not even mentioned in the text so it is completely impossible for the reader of this mess to make any connections between the text and the time-line and come up with a logical understanding of Bangladesh's history.

The maps in the book do not at all reflect reality.  At least half of the places I visited were incorrectly placed on the maps.  Buildings were non-existent, streets that were not on the map were roaring with traffic on the ground, and many places seem to have just been placed somewhere near their actual location due to laziness on the author's part.  Totally unacceptable.

Most importantly, a lot of the information was just plain wrong.  For example, one of the border crossings to get into India was described as being easy to find and well signed but it was not even possible to cross the border at this place, nor had it ever been possible.  The actual border crossing was not even mentioned.

The descriptions of the historic sites were vague and inaccurate.  In a country with few signs describing monuments and sites, a one line description in the guide book is not nearly enough, especially when its wrong.

Lastly, the writing was uninspiring, bland, confusing, and often grammatically incorrect.  I know that this is not as important as the actual information contained in the book, but having to stumble through some of the descriptions in this book (especially in the history section) was like torture.  The author's command of the English language is at an elementary level and this, in my opinion, reflects badly on Lonely Planet.

Bangladesh is an amazing country filled with wonderful, hospitable people, but this guide really does nothing to facilitate a trip through the place.
3680379
This little guidebook is so outdated until it is no more than a joke. Don't spend your money. I have thrown mine in the can. I hope the writer is still in one piece.
4855050
Brady Games is notorious for putting together somewhat haphazard game guides, and the FF12 guide is no exception. What we have here is a colossal guide for FF12, featuring almost all of the information that any player needs to complete the game. It includes lists of all of the loot drops in the game, strategies on how to beat all of the optional bosses, and advice on how to build your party so that the license board does not completely perplex you. However, the guide has many inherent flaws, which make it a little less than lovable.

To begin, the guide is chock full of spoiler information. Nowhere in the guide can you go and get the quick and simple advice that you might be seeking for a part of the game. Instead, the writers have chosen to fill almost every part of the walk through up with unnecessary information on the storyline scenes and spoilers that which makes playing the game a little boring. The guide could easily have had 50+ pages taken out of it if the writers had avoided spoiling most of the game's storyline. Instead however, it seems that they have (with Square-Enix' blessing) filled every part of the walk through up with spoiler content in order to add weight to the guide when the weight is superfluous.

Another hindrance on the guide are it's strange typographical errors. Throughout the guide the reader will find instances where references to other pages are turned to question marks. For example, when going over a side quest, the guide says to look to page (???) for more information. This is rather troublesome and it leaves the reader wondering if that page is even in the guide.

The guide also suffers from bad organization. The maps of the dungeons are small and cumbersome, and while playing through an area, players will have to continuously flip back to the page with the map and squint their eyes to find out where the treasure chest they want is located. The guide also fails to mention where some of the "good treasure" drops are in each dungeon and the player will have to refer to the exhaustive bestiary section to find out where the monster they want is located and if they are capable of killing it.

Another lack of organization is the lack of an index. The guide is set up in such a way that in order to know everything, the player will have to start using it when they start the game. If they begin to read it during any other point, they will have to flip back and scrounge around before they might be able to find a piece of information that otherwise could have been found by using an index.

The final blow to the FF12 guide however is the complete lack of explanation of how the treasure chest system works. There are tables however, that break down the frequencies of finding an item, but it requires trial and error before the player will find out exactly how to use the table. A thorough explanation should have been in order to explain this critical aspect of the game.

Despite these numerous errors, the guide still offers much to players who are in need of help for completing the game. It offers great advice on how to defeat all of the bosses (and the previously mentioned optional bosses), it gives the location of every single item, and it has a very pretty presentation, chock full of screen shots and artwork. If a player is seeking this guide, the best advice would be to locate the limited edition version of it, as it comes in a hard cover case and has an extra "art book" that comes with it.

*Update* Another serious flaw with the guide that I didn't realize until I  got towards the end of the game was the lousy advise the game guide gives on one of the last dungeons. While this dungeon is indeed optional, it features a few of the best items in the game as well as some of the hardest fights, so boo on Brady Games for not taking the time to explain this dungeon in better detail.
785008
I bought this guide right after the game came out a couple years ago. I had purchased other final fantasy guides and they had all been very helpful.  This one they really bombed.  The whole thing is pretty much a plug for their website playonline.com.  You get constantly told to go to the website to get any real hints.  Not recommended
956740
I bought this book expecting it to be our guide for wonderful culinary and  walking adventures in Tuscany.  The descriptions are incomplete,(e.g. there  is directions on how to go in one direction but not how to return).  The  only good thing about this book was the adventures that evolved while we  were lost looking for the trails described.  Italy appears to have a well  mapped national trail system, however due to our lack of Italian and the  inability to decipher when the National Park offices were open, we were  unable to acquire the maps and corresponding documentation.  I would  suggest that this information be included rather than the chaotic and hit  or miss selections included in the book.
The book was pretty worthless.  I abandoned it in my villa, not worth carrying home.
3423478
I want to start off and say that the guide indeed includes all information you would want. Side quests, hunts, loot, bazaar, walkthrough, bestiary, secrets, etc. Where this guide fails miserably is organizing everything and cluttering the guide with spoilers and useless screenshots. The presentation kind of looks pretty at first, but when you realize there's a bunch of junk you have to sift for information you quickly change your opinion about the guide.

The walkthrough is probably the biggest failure of the guide. It's loaded with spoilers and useless spoiler screenshots that could've been replaced with larger maps or screenshots that help you find where to go. In addition, it fails to tell you when you should do the sidequests. The chance to do some of the sidequests are lost because you're at a point in the game you can't go back. The walkthrough is written in a roundabout way giving more story spoilers than what to do. I found myself having to go back to do something, missing sidequests I can't go back to, spending more time finding what to do because the walkthrough doesn't describe it well. The walkthrough is strictly for you to get through the story and it gives you spoilers. It gets the job done, but it's filled with holes.

The sidequests are all included in the back, so you'll constantly be flipping pages to see if you can do any sidequests yet or so you won't miss any. The sidequest section itself is poorly organized as well. You have sidequests that open up earlier in the game put at the end of the section while the latter sidequests put in the middle of the section. Another irritating thing about it is that in some places the text is extra small requiring you to squint while reading what to do. The guide has the information, but you'll be spending some time looking for it.

Parts of the guide have you referring pages to ???. I'm not sure if it's a print error or the page doesn't exist.

The limited edition of the guide is exactly the same only with an artbook. It's not really a hardcover. If you've seen FFX-2's limited edition guide or Kingdom Hearts 2 limited edition guide, then you know how this limited edition guide looks. The artwork is pretty neat, but nothing spectacular. A lot of blown up shots of the same kind of artwork you'd see in the regular guide.

Should you buy the guide? If you are a collector of Final Fantasy games and guides, then this guide should be a pick up. It's not that bad compared to FFIX's ridiculously horrible guide. It doesn't compare to FFVIII's strategy guide, which in my opinion is the best one so far. If you are the average guide seeker, the guide is still worth the pick up for all the information you want like license board, loot list, weapon, armor, and items list, hunt list and so on.
1376494
This navigation device is worse than worthless.  The browse function is not stable, it drifts around on its own, making it useless.  When powering up, or going over 60 mph, it automatically zooms to the highest (furthest out view) level making it useless as a navigation aid. So if you go over 60 mph on the interstate between exits or on smaller public roads, it zooms so far out that even the road you are on may disappear.  No chance of seeing how the interstate ramps are configured, or seeing the smaller country roads. The zoom buttons are over the map, so if you touch anywhere near the edge of the button it goes into it's useless browse mode.  Do not buy this model under any conditions, you will be sadly disappointed.  I have owned other Garmin products and they were better than this one.  They dropped the ball on this model.
4719887
I purchased this guide several months ago and only now am reviewing it. The guide is very, very disorganized and gives very little assistance on playing the game. I did better going to the net and finding YouTube video from IGN to assist with the game. The game itself is great however the guide is terrible. I do not recommend buying the guide it is a waste of your money!! I hope they do better with Assassins Creed 4's guide which I have pre ordered with the game.
3846974
A totally useless guide.  You will be better informed by merely looking at the camera than by reading this users "guide".