Customer Reviews
Yeh, worth it. - By: Mr. Sean M. Mcnamee, 01 Aug 2008 
Ok, this guide will not tell you how to find all the secrets or all the legendaries. However it does complete the 150ish pokedex nicely & round off the story mode. Some of the book is arranged slightly strangely, appears not to bein order, however, once the user has obtained fly & the amount of times you go back to cities it really doesnt matter wherein the book it is, because you have to search for it anyway. It has great maps of areas though. Which is great!I recommend for the price!
Good book all round - By: , 18 Jul 2008 
This is a really good book to tell you where all 150 Pokemon arein the Sinho Region. It also tells you where to find items as well as giving advice. Suggest getting the book if your staring the game for the first time,but still a good way to round up all the Pokemon. It also tells you how to beat the Pokemon league.I'd really say GET THIS BOOK.
disappointing - By: Amy Pike, 31 Aug 2007 
When I first looked at the strategy guide, I thought it looked like just what I wanted but when I came to play the game it just seemed to be set outin the most haphazard way.
I wanted clear maps with details about where pokemon/items/key characters could be found. I got pictures of pokemon which could be floating about somewhere on the page if they could caught with a key which I didn' understand. I often missed the pictures or had to look to find themin between all the bright colours & often random text boxes. The items were labelled on the map, but not what the items. There was a key below the map saying which items could be foundin the area but say if I wanted to find a shiny stone I'd have to guess which pokeball on the map contained it. As for key characters, forget it.
Important pages, like how to improve your pokemon's happiness was just inserted randomly, & was not easy to find again when it was needed. I didn't think the descriptions of locations on these pages was very helpful.
Oh & I was also annoyed that the guide stopped as soon as you defeated the elite four. I appreciate that that is pretty much the end of the shinnoh game but at least a little about the large portion of the map that can now be accessed would be nice.
however, maybe I'm being unfair & it does have the things I want from it (allbeit somewhere random)in it somewhere but I've become so frustrated with being unable to find what I want at a glance & resorting to the internet for tips, that I sorely regret buying it.
New and Old - By: Mr. Nihaar Cherodian, 17 Aug 2007 
Now let me tell you i liked this game though having played all the others this seemed good new start ..... this guide is very thick & does have allot of tips, plus a guide too all the pokemonin the game that you can capturein Sinho .... i dont like the idea of buying volume 2 becasue i though it would of all beenin volume 1 likein the original pokemon Blue walk through it had the guide adn then a big pokedex including facks adn figures about each & every pokemonin the game ...... why o why couldnt they put it all into one instead of making you buy more than you should have to ..... this is nintendos tactics & just like they have done with the wii controllers
Gotta catch em all... wait, it'd be good to know what they all are first! - By: Mr. H. Earle, 17 Aug 2007 While I don't disagree with the other reviewer, I would hasten to say that the guide is laid outin an extremely confusing manner, with events that you cannot do until halfway through the game mentioned near the beginning of the guide, & areas which you won't be able to explore yet mapped & covered as soon as any portion of that area Could be entered.
What I'm saying might sound confusing - that's because it's a really confusing way to lay out a guide! I found myself having to flick back & forth through the guide many times to play through the gamein a linear fashion.
My other gripe is that some of the informationin this guide is missing, or just plain wrong. It's nothing huge, it's just very obvious that the people who wrote this guide (or at least those who typed it up) have never played the game.
My final disappointment is that the pokedex is not includedin this guide & that we'll have to pay another £10 or whatever if we want detailed info on each pokemon. Not very good value for money.
Having said all that - If you really want a pokemon diamond & pearl guide, this one will do!
