As a child I’d occasionally get videogame strategy guides at garage sales which largely fostered my long-term love of reading.

I’m sure others have similar stories so what were some of your favorite Brady/Prima/other strategy guides?

To start off for me:

  • Sonic Adventure 2 Battle
  • Jak 3
  • Knights of the Old Republic
  • Banjo-Kazooie

Jak 3 is probably my personal favorite as I remember liking the artwork/concept art a lot as well as blurbs written in-character.

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    1 year ago

    The 7th Guest has a great one that’s like told in-character, included in the files of the digital copies of the game now as a pdf, the pdf is 368 pages long! it’s scans not text but here’s some screenshots of excerpts

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    I still have my games guide for the original Final Fantasy Tactics for the PlayStation. I’ve kept it all these years just for the beautiful artwork.

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      1 year ago

      That reminded me that at some point I ended up with a FF13 guide and, despite not living the game, really enjoying it.

      I purchased an FFX guide when I was very young but unfortunately I remember it having coffee stains all throughout.

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    I liked the official Nintendo OoT guide because it was written in 3rd person and was relatively spoiler free.

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    It’s not an official guide but CyricZ’s guides to the Yakuza series. Very informative and easy to follow.

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    Wouldn’t have found half the shit without the Final Fantasy 7 or 10 strategy guide.