Final Fantasy IX: Official Strategy Guide (Strategies & Secrets) - Books (Piggyback, Paperback)

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Customer Reviews of Final Fantasy IX: Official Strategy Guide (Strategies & Secrets)

D. Neasham

23rd September 2008

Guide imcomplete!
The only Piggyback brand guides I've used prior to this were for FFX and FFX-2 and was very pleased about them and so assumed this guide would be to the same standard.

I was hugely mistaken, much of the information isn't all that useful and when it actually comes to a part you really need to know...
All you get is:
(quoted)
PlayOnline
Keyword #-#######
"If you want to give Queen Stella what she is
looking for, then go to PlayOnline to find out its location"

I'm sorry but for a walkthrough of this price, I expected better and I kid you not, these little boxes telling you to visit PlayOnline for the info you need are CONSTANT!

I have the Piggyback brand guides for FFX FFX-2 and FFVIII (I reccently bought this with the IX guide, far superior) and I'd of rated those around 4-5 stars, so you can see how dissapointed I am with this purchase.

P.S. It also has the least number of pages out of the guides I listed.

T. Rice
UK
31st October 2006

Very Good
Easy to use & full of useful info. This guide is colourful and well presented, and made sure that I didn't miss any item pickups or other secrets during the game. It is annoying that some of the finer secrets require a login on the website. When you're trying to play the game and use the guide, you don't really want to have to go online to find out things that the guide should tell you anyway - especially for people with no internet connection. However, all the important information is in the book, it was just lots of smaller but still very useful secrets that required me to go online. A minor inconvenience. Overall extremely good and worth the money - the best guide there is for the game, though the guide for FFVIII was a bit better.

thebrightspark
UK
1st October 2005

Could be better
I have used strategy guides of this line before and both were brilliant, or at least brilliant enough that I can't remember where they fell down. The FFIX strategy guide disappointed me, however. The text is more narrative than instructions, and though part of it seems to be the fault of the game (lacking in side quests, anyone?) I didn't feel like it really went in depth into what to do and how to do, but just told you what was going on. All well and good, but I don't like things that just point out what I've already worked out. I'd like a strategy guide I can refer to when I'm stuck; this one hasn't really come through for me.

3rd September 2005

not enough content
There is alot of information in this book and it is a good stratagy guide. However, there is way too much of it which you have to go to playonline for, which gets really annoying. After paying for a book i wouldn't expect to have to do this. It's a great downfall for this book, though the rest of it is very good and helpful.

red_igor123

14th June 2005

GOOD THOROUGH BOOK
This is a pretty good guide overall.

However, I would agree with others that the website use is a bit of a pain, though useful.

Unfortunately, last time I tried the website IT DID NOT WORK. I think this is because the game is quite old and they do not want to continually maintain it.

The game is pretty good as well, though FF VIII is better, I think though it's more complex