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Having originally purchased the first edition of this guide for the playstation. I decided to pick this one up to see how it was compared to the other. The first edition was sometimes hard to follow and included half of the interesting tricks near the back of the book, so by the time you looked back there, those goals were unacheivable.

This guide is definently much easier too follow, and it doesn't spoil the game like the other one. I am a little upset that it doesn't teach you how to beat the last boss. But overall it is a well written guide that helps you more than the first.

However there are some problems, first of all, why is it comepletly in black and white? Only the maps are in color, and they've been shoved in the back. However, I recomend this guide if you are stuck in one of the greatest games ever made.

This Book was very helpfull, but I have several complaints about it. First of all, the List of enemies in the back of the book is COMPLETELY unreliable, for example: Master Tonbery has 44,444 HP, not 8000, and he can be morped into a Ribbon. The little cactus men on Cactuar Island can be morphed into Tetra Elemantals, and ALL the enemies on the crashed Gelinka can be morphed into sorces. It also doesn't tell you where to get certain materias, or states it incorrecly. Final Attack is obtained by defeating the Boss Battle at the battle Square, not the Chocobo Races. Also, whats with the tissues, 1/35 sinra armored attack soldiers, autograpghs, Dio's Diaries, etc. The only good thing about this strategy Guide is that it has near perfect maps (some areas were missed, like the hidded romm in the Great Glaciers) IT ALSO RUINS THE STORY LINE, WHICH IS WHAT RPGS ARE ALL ABOUT. Buy it only if you are completly stuck, or go online. There are much better guides online, plus their free. Ok, I think thats it. And OZZY RULES!

To all thoes people who are whining about how this book spoils everything that is going to happen, why do you read through the entire book? Just read what you need to know, do it, then read the next thing you need to know. It's really not that difficult a concept to understand. Me, I will sometimes go out and buy the guide just to see what happens next because I get stuck easially. Even my brother, who lives, breathes, and thinks Final Fantasy, thought that this book was wonderful. This book has helped me out of several tough spots. I would not recommend this book to anyone who is a perfectionist, or who is going to go over the game and the guide with a fine toothed comb and complain about every little detail, or to peeople who are good enough that they can beat it in their sleep, but then, why would experts need it? But I would deffiniatly recommend it to everyone else.
Overall: Good guide, slightly flawed but all stratagy guides are like that, this guy's boss stratagy's may work for him but they don't for me because my playing style is probly different from his, wonderful maps, good intro and info about characters, exelent written walkthrough, and it will only spoil things for you if you read ahead.
9/10 stars