Pokemon Diamond & Pearl Official Strategy Guide: The Official Pokemon Scenario Guide - Books (Future Press, Paperback)

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Customer Reviews of Pokemon Diamond & Pearl Official Strategy Guide: The Official Pokemon Scenario Guide

seanusmcmaximus
uk
1st August 2008

Yeh, worth it.
Ok, this guide will not tell you how to find all the secrets or all the legendaries. However it does complete the 150ish pokedex nicely and round off the story mode. Some of the book is arranged slightly strangely, appears not to be in order, however, once the user has obtained fly and the amount of times you go back to cities it really doesnt matter where in the book it is, because you have to search for it anyway. It has great maps of areas though. Which is great!I recommend for the price!

18th July 2008

Good book all round
This is a really good book to tell you where all 150 Pokemon are in the Sinho Region. It also tells you where to find items as well as giving advice. Suggest getting the book if your staring the game for the first time,but still a good way to round up all the Pokemon. It also tells you how to beat the Pokemon league.I'd really say GET THIS BOOK.

racerdee
UK
31st August 2007

disappointing
When I first looked at the strategy guide, I thought it looked like just what I wanted but when I came to play the game it just seemed to be set out in the most haphazard way.
I wanted clear maps with details about where pokemon/items/key characters could be found. I got pictures of pokemon which could be floating about somewhere on the page if they could caught with a key which I didn' understand. I often missed the pictures or had to look to find them in between all the bright colours and often random text boxes. The items were labelled on the map, but not what the items. There was a key below the map saying which items could be found in the area but say if I wanted to find a shiny stone I'd have to guess which pokeball on the map contained it. As for key characters, forget it.
Important pages, like how to improve your pokemon's happiness was just inserted randomly, and was not easy to find again when it was needed. I didn't think the descriptions of locations on these pages was very helpful.
Oh and I was also annoyed that the guide stopped as soon as you defeated the elite four. I appreciate that that is pretty much the end of the shinnoh game but at least a little about the large portion of the map that can now be accessed would be nice.
however, maybe I'm being unfair and it does have the things I want from it (allbeit somewhere random) in it somewhere but I've become so frustrated with being unable to find what I want at a glance and resorting to the internet for tips, that I sorely regret buying it.

nitros5
Uk
17th August 2007

New and Old
Now let me tell you i liked this game though having played all the others this seemed good new start ..... this guide is very thick and does have allot of tips, plus a guide too all the pokemon in the game that you can capture in Sinho .... i dont like the idea of buying volume 2 becasue i though it would of all been in volume 1 like in the original pokemon Blue walk through it had the guide adn then a big pokedex including facks adn figures about each and every pokemon in the game ...... why o why couldnt they put it all into one instead of making you buy more than you should have to ..... this is nintendos tactics and just like they have done with the wii controllers

Mr. H. Earle

17th August 2007

Gotta catch em all... wait, it'd be good to know what they all are first!
While I don't disagree with the other reviewer, I would hasten to say that the guide is laid out in an extremely confusing manner, with events that you cannot do until halfway through the game mentioned near the beginning of the guide, and areas which you won't be able to explore yet mapped and covered as soon as any portion of that area Could be entered.
What I'm saying might sound confusing - that's because it's a really confusing way to lay out a guide! I found myself having to flick back and forth through the guide many times to play through the game in a linear fashion.
My other gripe is that some of the information in this guide is missing, or just plain wrong. It's nothing huge, it's just very obvious that the people who wrote this guide (or at least those who typed it up) have never played the game.
My final disappointment is that the pokedex is not included in this guide and that we'll have to pay another £10 or whatever if we want detailed info on each pokemon. Not very good value for money.
Having said all that - If you really want a pokemon diamond and pearl guide, this one will do!