Final Fantasy Origins Official Strategy Guide

It seems that pretty much every video game that comes out now has a strategy guide. Role Playing Games are the ones that need the guides more than others. The games tend to be longer, more involved, and often encompass little secrets that you might not catch the first time through the game. This is the strategy guide for the recent Playstation game Final Fantasy Origins. Final Fantasy Origins contains two games: Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy II. Final Fantasy was first released on the NES during the late 80's and Final Fantasy II was only released in Japan, never America.

Final Fantasy: The original Final Fantasy is one of the more straightforward games in the series, but a guide does offer some help. To know what to do next, you have to pay attention to a lot of the clues given by townspeople (plus some trial and error). This guide shows you where to go next and gives a complete spell/item/equipment list for each town. Since you can only learn 3 of the 4 spells...Read more

This guide is clearly one of the better guides I've seen from BradyGAMES. Its much better than their Final Fantasy Anthology guide and a great deal better than the Final Fantasy Chronicles. I have about two small gripes with the guide (see below) but I couldn't decide if that should make me lower the rating or not. But since a 4.5 would round up to 5. Theres my decision.

First, the Final Fantasy I section. This section is relatively short compared to the 150 Pages for FFII. Anyhow, this leads you through the game from start to finish while explaining the job classes and even gives advice on what job classes you should assign your characters at the start. It also has a complete bestiary and tells you how to complete your collection data. All secrets revealed. This section also tells you the difference between the Normal and Easy modes. It also tells you what stats go up at what levels for your job classes. However, they didn't go deep enough into the job classes. To me this...Read more

Wow, this book's got everything! Bestiary, secret items, boss strategies, everything. If you seriously are having trouble, get this guide. You won't be sorry, you'll be like " Wow this thing DOES have EVERYTHING!"