Black & White: Prima's Official Strategy Guide by Dean Evans
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Book Reviews of Black & White: Prima's Official Strategy Guide
Book Review: 'Black and White strat. guide', godly or hellish?
Summary: 2 Stars
This strategy guide is useful more for the every-now-and-then gamer than the hardcore one like myself. It has clean cut and usefully headed chapters on some aspects of the game and one chapter for each level, with brief help for every challenge you will encounter. One thing I noticed early on was that most of the information could be found else-where, in the game manual or on the in-game help signs liberally distributed around the landscape. Not much was from Prima actually thinking up their own techniques or tricks. In all fairness, Lionhead had already done so much to help you and so maybe it was a struggle for Prima to find any original material.
For example, in Land 3 there is a challenge where you must follow a sneaky Guri-type around the Mountain he lives on to his secret meditation spot. If he sees you he will stop and you will have to start again. At one point he turns round very quickly and I often got caught. Prima's suggestion: Turn around as he does. Yes, I could have worked that out myself! The problem is doing it quick enough. I found out later how to solve this puzzle, but this was not in the guide.
In conclusion; A skimpy, half a piece of celery for lunch, guide with hardly any original help. Not worth the money unless your really desperate, but good however if you are new to games of this type and need waterwings to coax you along.
Recommended only for more inexperianced players.
Book Review: Nothing you can't find on the net
Summary: 2 Stars
This isn't a very good strategy guide. There is not enough material on training your creature, which is unfortunate, since your creature is one of the more important, not to mention COMPLEX, aspects of the game. Also, the section on miracles is very vague. The only thing that kept me from rating only one star is that the actual walkthroughs for the various mini quests are useful. This is more of a walkthrough guide than a strategy guide, and with a game like B & W, the fun is in playing it, not completing itBook Review: get the gamespot guide instead
Summary: 2 Stars
the only parts of this guide i found useful were the starting statistics for the creatures, and a few of the harder silver scroll solutions.the stats on wood value of species of trees was interesting too, but doesn't make a practical difference in actual play, since it is a waste of time to rely on trees for wood in B&W.
Book Review: Not worth it
Summary: 1 Stars
Save your money. This "guide" offers little more information than what is already provided in the instruction book and in the game itself (with all the help signs, etc.). Probably the only parts that could be considered useful are the walkthroughs of the 5 lands, but even the walkthroughs don't offer much in the way of strategies to consider. Plus, by now the walkthroughs are available on the internet somewhere. As mentioned above, the guide offers little/nothing in the way of good vs. evil consequences for doing certain actions. It is very disappointing to find such a lousy guide with the Prima name on it. I recommend playing the game without this guide (since it doesn't really guide you at all), and if you get stuck then find some help on the internet.
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