Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Collector's Edition (Revised): Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides)

This review is particularly long. If you want, you can look down at the bottom where I've listed the pros and cons.

When you pick up a guide and its 432 pages the first thing that instantly comes to mind is that this is a huge guide therefore it must have all the information. The thing that usually escapes our mind is where all the information is. This is a really good guide, and there's a ton of information there, but like many incredibly thick guides, the information is all over the place. However, with this guide, the information isn't all over the place in a highly disorganized fashion.

The guide begins with several of the game basics. If there's anything about the gameplay you don't understand this guide can help. After that we get into all the weapons and equipment you'll be using, the characters you'll meet and the enemies you'll encounter. For the enemies they've got what's called a "threat meter" to tell you just how hard the enemy is, and they've...Read more

I ordered this product December 13th, and already received it January 5th: it was shipped to the Netherlands.

The magnificant Zelda-emblem on the cover shines in gold, as do the pages on the outerside of the book. The cloth map is nice too. The guide dóes specify it's Wii-version only.

The pages of the book are incredibly detailed; the authors sometimes even make notes where they got stuck in the game, which is fun to read. Every little bit of open space is filled with tips, pictures or artwork, for example. I would have liked to see more artwork in this guide, however.

Sometimes the authors repeat (unuseful) information (character desciption or messages about obtaining an item in the game). This was not disturbing to me, though.

Of course, Zelda games should never be played using a guide (finding the way on your own satisfies the most!). However, this guide is a great collectors item and in my opinion a must-have. I think...Read more

First off, let me point out that I am a HUGE Legend of Zelda fan. As soon as I saw this "collector's edition" guide, I preordered it. The guide looks great, the cover is beautiful, and the artwork and design is fantastic. Once you get past all that, however, and begin to look through it, you realize its many faults. The guide has no index, and all the locations of different items are scattered seemingly randomly throughout the entire book. Want to find one specific heart piece? Well, have fun checking through all 400 pages until you find the one you want. How about that one poe soul you can't find? Same deal. It's nigh impossible to find any specific thing in this book.

Then, you get to the walkthrough itself. So lets suppose you get into a dungeon, and want to know where to start. So you look at the guide, and it tells you to go into the north door. So you go through the north door, and look at the guide again. It says "You'll need to go here later, but for now, just go...Read more