Official Nintendo Power The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Player's Guide

by Nintendo Power

The ONLY official guide from the insiders at Nintendo! Unleash the beast! Don't let the creatures of the Twilight Realm drive you howling mad! Use the Official Nintendo Player's Guide to ward off the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1598120042
• ISBN13: 9781598120042
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Nintendo of America Inc.
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Most Handy Game Guide. Highly Recommend

The delivery was quick and kept me updated on transit progress. A very detailed and very clear guide with maps of all the dungeons, items within, and story points of LoZ: Twilight Princess. A very helpful book to have on hand if you are wanting to play the game on Wii or Gamecube. Lots of helpful hints, tips and a couple secrets and tricks to help improve quality of life as a player of the game.

Well worth it

Veteran Zelda fans will probably find this guide useless. The secrets, tricks and traps are obvious to them. But if you aren't extremely proficient in the Zelda series this book is a godsend. It's an in depth walk through of the entire game, with heart, poe, and item locations intertwined within and in a handy reference section in the back, with detailed instructions on how to get each item. Bosses are all impossible to fight until you stumble upon their weakpoints, which this guide tells you. Several puzzles are also difficult unless you've played through others in the series. While it is designed with the Wii version in mind it also covers the Gamecube version. The only difference between the two is that right and left are switched for everything, but all you have to do is switch right with left and vice versa if using the guide for the Gamecube version like I did. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone playing the game.

SIMPLY GREAT!

Very nice and helpful. Great guide for a great game. Fully recommended.

I Really Like My Nintendo Power Guides

And this one is no exception. If you're thinking about buying this though, why not go to the nintendo power site and get it as a free gift with subscription. One year only cost me $20 and I also got the Twilight Princess soundtrack which is a pretty cool little extra.

Get the Most out of Twilight Princess

I was torn between ordering the Prima or the Nintendo Guide, but after a visit to the bookstore to try it before I bought it, I'm glad I chose the Nintendo Guide. The format is easy to follow - there are maps and locations of every twilight bug, howling stone locations, keys, everything. The main thing I like about this guide is that the Poe Souls, Golden Bugs, and Heart Pieces are collected at the end, not in walk-through only form like they are in the Prima Guide. The guide helps you not only get through the game, but get the most out of it. I highly recommend this guide for all players at any point in the game - chances are, there's something that you missed. The only thingI'd recommend the Prima guide for is if you haven't started the game at all, and you can follow along. The Nintendo guide is cheaper and easier to follow - Prima uses strange fonts. Prima also give comprehensive character information, but the Golden Bugs, Poe Souls, and Heart Piece locations are scattered, making it impossible to backtrack with the Prima guide. The only negative aspect of this guide is that the poster it comes with is kinda lame. Other than that, it's great!

"Unleash the Beast!"

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is a huge game! By far the biggest one in the series, and without a doubt the most absorbing. A game as big as The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess may be hard for a gamer to traverse without some help. This is where Nintendo's Official Strategy Guide comes into play. This tome is jampacked with everything you need to know about conquering the twilight. Rest assured, you're getting your money's worth with this guide. The guide begins with a short introduction to the storyline. Its more or less what you already get from the instruction manual in less detail. It spans a mere two pages, and then it goes into all the game basics stuff. Things like the controls which can easily be learned on your own, or through the games short and sweet tutorials. Still, you can never go wrong with having this information in the guide. You probably won't need these basic things, but they're there... just in case. After that is a list of all the items you'll collect throughout your adventure, and a description of them. All these things are pretty basic for a strategy guide. Most (if not, every) strategy guide has them. So if you're having trouble adjusting to the game and the manual isn't helping, this guide will with its helpful diagrams and clear high rez screenshots. The walkthrough is one of the areas where the guide shines the most. The maps, unfortunately, are pulled straight from the game. They're not extremely detailed, but can easily be used to navigate through the game, and they do point out the location of hearts and other items on them. Just don't be expecting rendered 3D maps or anything like that. The walkthrough is written in the same style as most every Nintendo Power guide. That is to say, you must use the maps along with the text. On the map you'll see numbers strewn about. These correspond to the objectives in the text. So if you see "1" on the map, it means you'll have to look for section "1" in the objectives list. As with most Nintendo Power guides this makes the walkthrough extremely organized and easy to use. Unlike most other guides where you have to read most of the walkthrough first. Nintendo Power doesn't force you to do that. It works especially well because you can easily look to the guide only when you need to. Say you've done everything and you're stuck at one specific point. Look on the map in the game, match it up with the map in the guide and then you can read your objective. It helps you spend more time actually playing the game than reading the walkthrough. The walkthrough also contains several crystal clear screenshots and special call outs to new items and events. When it calls out to events, do not be alarmed. There are no plot spoilers in this guide. You will not find any here. Boss strategies are pretty basic. They tell you how to attack a boss and open up its weakness but that's about it. Nothing much on how to dodge attacks or what to watc