Binding: Video Game Brand: Square Enix EAN: 0828706801048 ESRB Age Rating: Teen Label: Square Enix Manufacturer: Square Enix Platform: PlayStation2 Publisher: Square Enix Sales Rank: 24004 Studio: Square Enix
Features:
This combo includes both Kingdom Hearts 2 and its official 300pg Brady Games guide!
Explore both new and familiar worlds from Kingdom Hearts, plus new Disney worlds to the Kingdom Hearts franchise, such as Pirates of the Caribbean, Beauty and the Beast and Mulan
A more advanced battle system that allows for a wider range of commands, powerful new combos, and cooperative attacks with members of your party, introducing another layer of strategy
A revamped camera system that keeps you in the middle of the action
All-new Drive command that lets Sora change into a variety of new forms, altering his skills and abilities
Rating: - Game is great, guide is unnecessary
For more details on the game, please see my review under the games section...
As to the guide, the real reason for this review:
Unlike the first Kingdom Hearts where the guide was essential, this guide is quite optional. The game has enough hints and exploration value for you to find all the chests and special areas without the guide. There are some nice features in Jiminy's Journal that make completing each world quite effective. You also can beat just about every boss without hints, although the hints will probably help you beat the bosses the first time out.
As to this particular guide, it is very well written, full of information and quite informative for the enthusiast. If you like to know all the details behind every synthesis item, every spell, each form, and each character, this is the book for you. While it has a very nice walkthrough section and step by step expalins most of the decision points of the game, the gameplay itself does not require you have this information to complete.
Overall, the guide should be purchased only by those who really want the detail of the game and want to be deluged with statistics, but it is not a requirement for full game completion.
