Summoner: Primas Official Strategy Guide

Product Review

After summoning a powerful demon that destroyed his home village, Joseph wandered alone until receiving a quest to find a series of ancient rings. Joined by a thief, a lady of high society, and a victim of his past mistakes, Joseph sets out into a hostile world to achieve his quest and make peace with his own demons. It's a world you won't want to enter on your own. Summoner: Prima's Official Strategy Guide will hold your hand through the world of darkness, show you how to get the most out of your traveling companions, explain the mystic puzzles that cross your path, and–hopefully–enable you to command the powers of Hell, itself. Your guilty conscience, however, is your own problem. Prima's guide gives you:

• Detailed maps for every city, cavern, and labyrinth
• Comprehensive strategies for defeating all bosses
• All 40+ subquests
• Complete lists of all Potions, Spells, and Items
• Exclusive maps and diagrams for some of the hardest puzzles ever created

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review

(5 customer reviews)

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful

Get help for this PS2 release!!!, December 3, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Summoner: Prima's Official Strategy Guide (Paperback)

If you're one of the lucky people who managed to walk home with a Playstation 2, good for you. I think Summoner is one of the best RPG's so far for PS2, and the numerous mini-quests and countless items are what people will most likely need to refer to the guide book for. This book has a lot of combat strategies and there's no denying that Summoner's battle system is very deep, engrossing, and a little complicated at times. This guide doesn't spoil the plot at all, and all people can get a lot of help from the guide

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful

Definitely not worth more than a couple bucks, April 1, 2001

Duncan Davidson (Nebraska) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Summoner: Prima's Official Strategy Guide (Paperback)

I have to start by saying this is the second worst strategy guide I have ever seen (the FFIX book being the worst).The character information is not quite complete, the tables (of weapons, armor, and such) are very unorganized, and if you followed the walkthrough word-for-word, you'd end up finding barely half the stuff in the game (if you even managed to complete it). Many of the arrows pointing to objects on a map are off by a significant margin and a good number of them point to objects that aren't in the area at all. And the book completely neglects many of the things you have to do to complete the quests. And before anyone says anything, yes, you can piece most of that together when cross-referencing the quest section and other parts of the book. But that's what a strategy guide is supposed to be for--if I wanted to piece it together I wouldn't have bothered with the book.The bottom line is, the maps and what there is of the character information (what's there is actually...Read more

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

summoner guide, August 11, 2002

Ms. H. Sinton "dragondrums" (Ingleby Barwick. U.K.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Summoner: Prima's Official Strategy Guide (Paperback)

I bought this book as I was getting 'bogged down' with some of the side quests.
I found the Prima Guide helpful with these and it contains some useful information about weapons, armour, etc and has fairly useful maps.
Having said that, the text is not always clear and is at times downright difficult to read and the book itself is a little flimsy. I also feel that the publishers could have put a lot more detail in than they did.
All in all quite a useful book if you are stuck but certainly not the best of it's type and not the best value for money.