Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII

by Doug Walsh

Book Overview

DISCOVER THE TRUTH All 300 Missions Covered Mini-maps, strategy, rewards, and requirements for every mission, including expert strategy for defeating Minerva, arguably the toughest FFVII boss ever... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0744010241
• ISBN13: 9780744010244
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Bradygames
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

It serves its purpose...probably too well.

I am one of those people who must uncover every item, secret, and ending that's available in a game. And though this guide provides those options to me, the trade-off is having the story spoiled well-before I've earned it. Granted its the price to pay since I chose to use a cheat book, but I just wanted people to know what they're in for should they decide to purchase it. Other than that it's an excellent enhancement to your gaming experience!!

Awesome guide

I bought this guide expecting nothing more than info. But, alas, the guide is a PIECE OF ART itself. It has every detail of the game pretty neat presented and even has a art gallery, a poster, and so on. Eye candy I must say.

A great guide

When looking for a guide you look for a few things: 1. Be able to find things that you may miss if you don't look everywhere closely 2. Help you get through the game quicker 3. Help you achieve 100% on everything 4. Good tidbits that helps you play better and enjoy it more so you don't have to keep restarting from game overs Well this guide has all of those. The guide helps with all the missions, and gives insight to the game. Much recommended

The Perfect Companion

When it comes to crafting Final Fantasy guides, Bradygames has a shaky history. They have a few hits but also a few misses. Luckily, the Crisis Core guide doesn't miss. It still suffers from some of the follies of previous guides, but at least its a helpful tool in many respects. The guide begins with an introduction to the storyline and then quickly jumps into the characters section. This brings us to the first and quite possibly only major problem with the guide, there are tons of spoilers almost from the moment you open it. The characters section explains more than it should about some characters. While it's nice that it refreshes your mind on some tidbits of Final Fantasy VII, it also gives away a bit to the plot of Crisis Core. There's nothing major here, at least. After the characters section we get into the game basics. If you're confused on anything in Crisis Core, this guide does a great job of explaining and helping to understand the system of the game and it does it without wasting too much time. It's a well organized section that hits all the important points. On another note, the biggest attraction in this section is easily the coverage of DMW. If you're confused in anyway about this new unique system, the guide explains it very well. Afterwards we get into the meat and potatoes of the guide. The walkthrough. This is where the guide has that major hit coming to it. If you don't like spoilers, this guide is full of them. The walkthrough is divided into chapters, and at the beginning of each chapter the guide feels the need to explain the situation. While it avoids spoiling a few major plot twists, it takes away some of the fun. There are also spoilers throughout the main text of the walkthrough. So far, there's nothing incredibly major, but there is enough to spoil some of the fun of the game. Otherwise, the walkthrough is almost perfect. At the beginning of each chapter they give you a step by step run down of what it is you'll be doing throughout the chapter and then explain it in more detail throughout the main sections. The walkthrough is extremely organized and has maps to go along with it. The maps are too detailed. They were pulled straight from the game itself, but they do point out the location of items, save points etc. They also have some fairly good boss strategies listed here. In short, if you really need a leg up, the walkthrough helps out. When the walkthrough is finally done with, there is a huge section dedicated to the missions in the game. Each mission has stats for the enemies, a brief description, a map and a strategy. Since missions are fairly small and straightforward, there's not much to say here, hence, the mission strategies are pretty short and small, save for the strategy for Minerva. While the mission section is helpful, there's quite a bit of page flipping in navigating it Then we get into the Materia section. There's a breakdown of Materia fusing here, which can reall