White Knight Chronicles: Strategy Guide (Bradygames Signature Series)

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The guide itself is nice looking and well made. It does good on talking about the items and general help info. But the maps *the part you will DEFINITELY want to be good* aren't that great. They show you where save points are and where you can enter/exit that area. But they don't show you where you can harvest items. They tell you in the paragraphs where it is located *example C3. The map is set up like a grid* but not where in the square the item chest or harvest items are. So you can be looking around for abou 5 minutes just combing through the grid square trying to find a patch of flowers the guide says is there. I wouldn't really recommend this guide to most people. There are a lot of dedicated guide writers online who will be a lot more help to you then this guid is when it comes to items. If you are just interested in character bios and stats it's ok but nothing fancy.

This is your typical BradyGames guide, several typos and short on information. Unfortunately it is all you have at the release of the game since online guides (at least good ones) do not exist... yet.

Maps:

These are helpful to see the entire zone; the map in game is zoomed in really far so you have to scroll around to see different areas making it difficult to get the overall picture. The downsides to the maps are they don't show anything but logic stone locations (save points). They do not tell you where harvest points are and they do not tell you where treasure chest locations are. In the text of the guide they will tell you some of these, but far from all of them. I could forgive them on the gather locations since there are a lot of them on each map, but not the treasure chests. I trusted the guide at first to let me know where those where, but when I went back later to do some grinding and to collect resources I found several more in areas that were not a...Read more

Though the walkthrough portion of the guide is sufficient, there are a few areas that lack any of the detailed information I was looking for:

Skill Charts
The only information in this part of the guide that cannot be found in-game is the pre-requisites for each skill. Even this information is not organized in a very useful manner, presented as text in a chart alphabetized by skill rather than listed as they are in-game. Detailed information that one would get upon purchasing a skill, such as the strength of each skill or their Action Chip costs, is nowhere to be found.

Materials
The numerous charts in the guide take up many pages, but all lack one very important element: where they can be found! Instead they've decided to include the short descriptions, which are not helpful in any way. If a player wanted to farm these materials, they would need to scan through the lengthy bestiary instead.

Stats
All throughout the walkthrough...Read more