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Rating  - A Helpful maunal
The pictures and diagrams are very useful. Sometimes the text can be a little confusing because parts of an explanation are spread out over several areas of the text, and it's a struggle to put the whole explanation all together. Overall, a very useful manual.
Rating  - Better walkthroughs are readily available
The Golden Sun games have more walkthroughs available for free than most games. Most of the online gamefaqs walkthroughs for Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age are so thorough and accurate (except that some authors have problems with their lefts and rights at times) that this guide isn't really necessary unless you do not have Internet access and, if you're reading this, you no doubt do.
These were the first rpg's I ever played and I was able to complete both games with just one online walkthrough I printed out for GS1 (an excellent guide by ElectroSpector) and two guides I printed out for Lost Age (the best of the two by Sunny Masud). That this guide does not include the dungeon on Crossbone Island is very puzzling. At the bottom of the dungeon is Deadbeard, the most powerful boss of the game and key to building up your experience and fighting strategy in preparation for the final boss battles. The screen shots here are nice. Obviously gamefaqs walkthroughs do not have screenshots; however, I didn't need them to complete the games and I am hardly experienced at rpg's. I need step-by-step help and I found that in the above walkthroughs. That this guide assumes a lot on the part of the player seems to open the door to a lot of frustrations to me.
Rating  - Golden Sun and Golden Sun 2 review
The book is a great help with the game. I recommend getting the book along with the game.
Rating - Great for its price.
With this guide you are paying $5 for each game and you just cant beat that price, especially when you consider how massive each game is. But the saying 'you get what you pay for' holds true on this guide.
The secret dungeon, Crossbone Island, of the first game is covered nowhere in this guide. Neither is the secret dungeon of the second game. What gives?
And a world map, which is standard far for a massive rpg, is non existant too. It does give directions in text but these can be extremely vague in some parts.
Also, there is no beastiary in the guide. Some of the rarest and best items in the game can only be gotten from enemies and this info is sorely missing with no beastiary.
And the item database is pretty expansive but again, the best items in the game are missing.
Though i have to give this guide credit. If youre stuck on a puzzle you can find the solutions in this guide in seconds. The solutions all have perfect pictures to guide you in the right direction.
And last but not least, finding every single djinn in the game is made a snap with this guide. Every djinn has a bold box of info with a title that says DJINN ALERT. This makes it extremely easy to flip through the guide to find any djinn you missed and makes finding them a piece of cake.
All in all this is a great guide for its 2-in-1 price.
So while it isnt the best guide for those rare item hunters, it is great for the players that like to solve the game on their own and only use guides as a 'last resort' or to help on a tricky puzzle.
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