Books : Tales of Vesperia Signature Series Guide (Bradygames Signature)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 794
EAN: 9780744010091
ISBN: 0744010098
Label: BRADY GAMES
Manufacturer: BRADY GAMES
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: August 18, 2008
Publisher: BRADY GAMES
Sales Rank: 16567
Studio: BRADY GAMES
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Seven Brave Friends. One Grand Adventure.
Full Walkthrough
Guide Brave Vesperia through every step of their journey, from Deidon Hold to the Enduring Shrine of Zaude!
Artes and Skills
In-depth coverage of every character's artes and skills!
Complete Monster Book
Full bestiary data including stats, habitat, weaknesses, resistances, and items dropped or stolen
Items and Equipment
Everything you need to know about your party's gear, from Synthesis ingredients to Attributes, and Skills!
In addition, you'll get:
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Cooking All recipes and Wonder Chef locations -
Characters Titles, bonus costumes, and stat growth - Extras Achievements, Giganto Monsters and MORE!
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Overall this guide is good but it would have been so much better if it Included maps of the area you visit. The Written details just dont hack it sometimes. I always find that maps are always better when it comes to locating things in towns and dungeons.
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When I bought this guide, I was really disappointed. It advertised all sorts of features, but half of them were not elaborated or not helpful at all. Here are the top 5 things that I though were problems with this guide (they're not in any particular order):
1. Doesn't explain how to aquire all Titles
The guide lists them, but it doesn't explain how to get them.
2. Doesn't list all of the Artes
There are more Artes than the guides says there is, oh and it didn't even give the Mystic Artes. They're like the most damage dealing moves in the entire game. Kinda stupid to leave those out.
3. Items and Equiptment
Again, it lists them, but doesn't tell you where to get them.
4. Skills
There is no section for the skills. There are dozens of skills but this guide doesn't explain what each one does. It doesn't even list them. You have to look at them on each equiptment to see them...in tiny print.
5. Side Quests
I can't even begin to explain the number of side quests that this guide didn't include. The ones it did explain were ones that you encounter just by following the walkthrough. The ones that arn't included are the ones that you have to go waaaaay out of your way to complete.
So I found more helpful tips on the internet. This guide was a waste of money in a lot of ways.
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I really don't know where to start with this guide.
There is some really nice information about the game mechanics and the items in the game. However most of the items, weapons, and armors do not have information about how to obtain them. You pretty much have to scour each page for shop data or the enemy log.
I typically buy a guide to RPGs for a few reasons, one being MAPS, two being side quests, and 3rd being information about gear. This "guide" lacks the MAPS and side quests information (for the most part) there is a small section about side quests but the guide misses a few quests and does not give much information about when they should be attempted.
This guide is also a pain for people who want to be surprised by the story elements of the game. Flipping through the pages you see huge pictures of each boss on the page that discusses the fights with those characters. You become almost afraid to even look on the next page. Furthermore, the text in the guide is horrible giving. Telling you exactly what you're going to see from scene to scene.
I would honestly suggest just following a guide online. It will probably make for a better less spoiling experience of Tales of Vesperia.
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I qualify this the way I do when people see me buy a game with the strat guide from the get go. I love the stories and not necessarily the super hard puzzles or missing key items. The guide is good, you will play through the game and get explanations along the way with a fair amount of head up notifications of things to take into consideration. There are a few typos in the book but nothing that can not be cleared up with a 15s google search of other people running into them. Let it be known that this does NOT have -everything- to consider in the game, but it does have more than enough to let you enjoy it worry free :)
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I usually like using the Bradygames guides for the Tales series games because they are usually very specific about side quests and sub-events that occur throughout the game. The frustrating thing about these sub-events are that many of them seem to appear in random locations with no clues from the main story as to how they are triggered. The Tales of Vesperia guide from Bradygames does include a lot of useful information from the game, but it also leaves out a great deal of side quests and contains some erroneous information.
First, the positives. It does an excellent job covering the main storyline. Granted, I never got stuck for too long at any particular point in the game, but if one were to find himself in a rut, the walkthrough can direct him in the right path. The boss guides are also useful in completing the game's Secret Missions. It has a comprehensive listing of most all of the items and enemies in the game, which is handy for completing the Collector's and Monster Books. However, it does not include any of the Valuable Items, which is required for completing the former.
Also, I found the arte listing after the walkthrough especially useful, mainly with learning the altered artes for each character. Mystic artes were excluded from the list, although I can understand that since they all have the same requirements from each character to use. However, some artes become more effective with increased usage, and it would have been nice to see a section ... Read More
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