When I buy my games I like to buy the game guides along with them. However, when I bought my HG/SS guide I realised that it lacked info on post E4 gameplay, i.e. a whole region (Kanto), which is basically the second half of the SAME GAME, was not included in the game guide! I now know that there will be a vol. 2 of the guide, with the walkthrough for Kanto being included in that.
I personally don't think it's a bad thing that there are two volumes of the guide, after all it would be a pretty big book if they put it all into one. The problem I do have with it is that they are releasing the second one a whole month AFTER the game! That means that by the time it IS released it’s almost certain that all the players would have already beaten the Kanto part of the game! It makes no sense to me, surely by doing it this way they are risking losing out.
Think about it this way; a player has just gone to Kanto after beating the champion and is stuck on where to find a certain item, he can't turn to the official Kanto guide for help as it isn't out yet, so instead he turns to Google and types in 'where to find (name of item) in HG/SS'. By doing this the player will most likely come across serebii.net (or some other similar website), discovering that not only does the web have ALL the info he would need on the Kanto and Johto regions, pokemon, movepools, items, etc. but that it is also FREE to access.
People will just turn to the web, and by the time the second guide comes out hardly anyone will want/need it. But I guess Nintendo shouldn’t be so thick in the first place as to do something so obviously counter-productive!
What do you think of the HG/SS game guide situation? Will you buy it when it FINALLY gets released? Have you ever bothered with them anyway?
P.S. I should point out that I will be getting it, but only because I collect guides to the games i buy! Weird I know, but what are ya gona do!?
I personally don't think it's a bad thing that there are two volumes of the guide, after all it would be a pretty big book if they put it all into one. The problem I do have with it is that they are releasing the second one a whole month AFTER the game! That means that by the time it IS released it’s almost certain that all the players would have already beaten the Kanto part of the game! It makes no sense to me, surely by doing it this way they are risking losing out.
Think about it this way; a player has just gone to Kanto after beating the champion and is stuck on where to find a certain item, he can't turn to the official Kanto guide for help as it isn't out yet, so instead he turns to Google and types in 'where to find (name of item) in HG/SS'. By doing this the player will most likely come across serebii.net (or some other similar website), discovering that not only does the web have ALL the info he would need on the Kanto and Johto regions, pokemon, movepools, items, etc. but that it is also FREE to access.
People will just turn to the web, and by the time the second guide comes out hardly anyone will want/need it. But I guess Nintendo shouldn’t be so thick in the first place as to do something so obviously counter-productive!
What do you think of the HG/SS game guide situation? Will you buy it when it FINALLY gets released? Have you ever bothered with them anyway?
P.S. I should point out that I will be getting it, but only because I collect guides to the games i buy! Weird I know, but what are ya gona do!?
I beat Kanto in two weeks, though.
