• Primagames Final Fantasy VII, VIII & IX Box Set

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    Colonel Angus
    Published on 07-09-2015 04:48 AM
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    On July 7 Prima Games released a collection of guides of all the numbered Final Fantasy Playstation era games. This hardcover collection comes in a magnetic-closure case, and includes 3 lithographs, one from each game.

    Early reviews from Amazon show that the guides are not up to snuff. If you're familiar with game guides, you know they're notorious for errors, and according to online commentators (by far the most trustworthy of people) these are riddled with them. If that's the case, this is unfortunate.

    One may even question why is Prima releasing this? If the copy editing is as poor as reported, it could be a rush job after the announcement of the Final Fantasy VII remake (to get in on any recent renewed interest in Final Fantasy VII or the other Playstation games). It could as well be due to the re release of Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VIII on Steam. But then, why add Final Fantasy IX? It's interesting that a game that has no announced re release is getting a re released guide.

    In spite of any negative reviews, if you're a collector, or one who can overlook such errors as Red XIII's bio being where Vincent's should be, this still may interest you. Below are links to Prima's site, as well as convenient Amazon links.

    http://www.primagames.com/feature/lo...iii-ix-box-set
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    Comments 10 Comments
    1. Wolf Kanno's Avatar
      Wolf Kanno - 07-09-2015, 05:32 AM
      The IX guide is utterly useless, so it's even more surprising it's being added, especially since PlayOnline never amounted to what Square intended it to be.
    1. Colonel Angus's Avatar
      Colonel Angus - 07-09-2015, 06:08 AM
      Quote Originally Posted by Wolf Kanno View Post
      The IX guide is utterly useless, so it's even more surprising it's being added, especially since PlayOnline never amounted to what Square intended it to be.
      Yeah, I remember that. I think I went there once or twice.

      Really, the best guide book I've ever seen was for FFXII. The ones for X & X-2 weren't bad, either. But the PS era ones were a waste.
    1. Randy's Avatar
      Randy - 07-09-2015, 05:22 PM
      Lol I've got a little black and white thingy that came with a magazine that's a better FF9 guide.
    1. Bubba's Avatar
      Bubba - 07-10-2015, 12:25 PM
      I bought the FFVII guide once I'd completed it for the first time.

      It is annotated to all Hell.
    1. Ayen's Avatar
      Ayen - 07-11-2015, 08:42 PM
      I'd get it mainly for the cover, to be honest.
    1. escobert's Avatar
      escobert - 07-12-2015, 07:02 AM
      I still have my original FFVII guide I had a VIII and IX but my former roommates made off with IX and VIII disappeared ages ago.
    1. Vyk's Avatar
      Vyk - 07-13-2015, 03:01 AM
      ...didn't they just do this like six months ago?

      Or was that Bradey Games..?
    1. theundeadhero's Avatar
      theundeadhero - 07-13-2015, 03:32 AM
      -I thought the guide for FFIX that came with this was standalone. Did they really just reprint the useless original? If so, maybe they simply reprinted all three which were so full of errors, especially VII, that it would make me seriously question my desire to buy this.
    1. Scotty_ffgamer's Avatar
      Scotty_ffgamer - 07-14-2015, 06:13 AM
      Pretty sure the IX guide is reworked to not be useless. I could be remembering wrong, but I'm pretty sure that was a thing they said.
    1. Formalhaut's Avatar
      Formalhaut - 07-14-2015, 06:43 PM
      Guidebooks have always been fairly questionable. The XII Piggyback guide was pretty good, but the X-2 guide was only passable: their 'enemy' strategies were fairly limited.

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