The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Wii Version (Prima Authorized Game Guide)

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

Despite its slick layout and pretty pictures, this book is almost useless when it comes to helping you solve the game.

The writers were extremely lazy when putting this together. They must have figured, "Since we will have screen captures of the action, we don't need to bother being specific about instructions." Unfortunately, the screen captures are the size of a postage stamp, so you don't get much useful information from them. And the instructions are awful. For instance, it is extremely typical for the book to say something like, "Find [important object or person] in this area," but without actually telling you where it is. When you're dealing with enormous tracts of land, it's just obvious that you should include more specific instructions like, "Find [important object or person] in the northwest corner of this vast wasteland."

In fact, there is almost no use of COMPASS DIRECTIONS in this entire book. Umm, hello? Compass directions are the most easily...Read more

I'm disappointed that this massive guide is printed on yellow/green paper making it difficult to read. None of the pictures or maps are very clear. In, fact, some of the legends are almost too small and unclear to see. I'm not a kid but I'm not that ancient, either. What happened to clear printing on white glossy paper--at least white paper? I wish I'd known all this before I bought this book. It's not useless, but I'm looking for a new guide.