Pokemon Trainer's Guide: Everything Pokemon (Pokémon)

 (6 customer reviews)

(This review is based on the old version of this book, before inclusion of Yellow information.)As other reviewers of this book noted, it's not the best guide to Pokemon Red and Blue out there -- the walkthrough is choppy, the layout is amateurish, the translation is holey, and it could've had more information. However, it has two great redeeming qualities (at least in my eyes) that no other book can offer -- the reasons for me buying the book at all:1) It contains information for Japanese versions, which I happen to own. (This may be a handicap for everyone else, it was a strength for me.) More specifically, it contains monster location information for the "3rd cart" (which isn't Yellow, by the way), aka the nonexistant "English Green", or the Japanese Blue version -- plus a map to Mewtwo for the Japanese Green and Red carts. (The Japanese Blue cart actually uses the American map!)2) It has actual percentages for monster locations, not just the unhelpful "common" versus...Read more

Be warned that this guide isn't accurate as it should be. For example, on one page it states that you have to win the Rainbow Badge to get the Bulbasaur from the Pokemon Collector in Pokemon Yellow. You only need the Cascade Badge which you get in Cerulean City.Another problem is the sequential order they use for the walk through which makes following it difficult and confusing. It would be better to have a step by step walk through rather than one that was so confusing as to mislead the readers.Besides these problems plus the map of one of the areas in the game being somewhat hard to read, the book is a fair read but my suggestion is that the buyer should be ware.

I bought this book for my daughter for Christmas. We used it constantly when she played Pokemon Snap. Now we use it when she plays with Gameboy Blue/Red/Yellow. I like the extensive use of pictures. I also like the alphabetical listing of the Pokemon instead of the 1-151 number system. Highly recommended!