I agree with you 100%, Jecht Shot, and I'm glad there's someone out there like me.

I'm in Law school right now and when we were walking through the library, one of the professors explained to us how a lot of people still come there to use the books, even those from the "digital generation", because going through an index, flipping between pages, keeping your place and comparing the two is actually easier with a book than it is on a website like Westlaw or LexisNexis.

And I feel the same way about strategy guides. I'm glad people take the time at places like gamefaqs.com to compile all this information in a presentable and often-times well designed fashion, with elaborate ASCII title logos and easy-to-navigate keywords, but nothing beats having a well put-together strategy guide, in color, with the artwork, screenshots, detailed maps, and overall just a great presentation. I really like it a lot, and for games in series that I really like a whole lot, I'll probably get the guide, as I did for Dragon Quest VIII and the last 2 full Metal Gear Solid games.

But I probably won't be getting this one. Money is tight and I have enough games to play on my console at home and handheld on the go, so I might not even be getting FFXIII all that soon, much less the strategy guide. In a little while I'd like to get an art book or something for this game, if this one has really elaborate concept art I might get it eventually. Piggyback did the one for Metal Gear Solid 4 and it had like a 13 page analysis of the entire series in the back.