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Pokémon X & Pokémon Y: The Official Kalos Region Guidebook - The Official Pokémon Strategy Guide
Here’s what you’ll find inside:
• Premium hardcover binding—dust jacket includes region map!
• A complete walkthrough of all the Gym Badges!
• Detailed information on all the new game features, from Sky Battles and Horde Encounters to Pokémon-Amie and more!
• A guide to where to find hidden items and special Pokémon—with a location index!
• Hints on the best ways to use Roller Skates, ride Pokémon, and challenge Gym Leaders!
• A super effective 4.78” x 7.18” premium fiber Pokémon screen cleaner to keep your Nintendo 3DS™ system looking sharp!
• Helpful tips and tricks for getting the most out of the PSS and online play!
• An updated type matchup chart that includes the all-new Fairy type!
• Pullout map to guide you through the Kalos region!
• Premium hardcover binding—dust jacket includes region map!
• A complete walkthrough of all the Gym Badges!
• Detailed information on all the new game features, from Sky Battles and Horde Encounters to Pokémon-Amie and more!
• A guide to where to find hidden items and special Pokémon—with a location index!
• Hints on the best ways to use Roller Skates, ride Pokémon, and challenge Gym Leaders!
• A super effective 4.78” x 7.18” premium fiber Pokémon screen cleaner to keep your Nintendo 3DS™ system looking sharp!
• Helpful tips and tricks for getting the most out of the PSS and online play!
• An updated type matchup chart that includes the all-new Fairy type!
• Pullout map to guide you through the Kalos region!
416 pages, Hardcover
First published October 12, 2013
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November 1, 2013
This wasn't a bad strategy guide, but for a game with so much new content in comparison to its predecessors, it did leave a lot to be desired. The book came shrink wrapped with some little extras inside so I never got to page through it before I bought it. The first major disappointment was that there was no pokedex. With pokemon X & Y there are now 718 pokemon and for players who skipped a generation or just players in general, a pokedex definitely would have been a worthwhile inclusion. Things like Serebii and Bulbapedia make it a lot easier to get by without one, but still.
The next thing I noticed was the actual "guide." Now pokemon isn't exactly complicated when it comes to puzzle solving, but one of the big bonuses in a guide is having the answers there if you want them. This guide took more of a "figure it out" sort of approach to the puzzles... again, something a little frustrating considering new content such as the ability to skate diagonally across ice, a feature that, to my knowledge, was in none of the previous games. Instead it included "helpful hints" like "you need to skate diagonally" or "just head right." Again, it's not exactly back breaking but... its a little bit frustrating to leave out of a players guide.
The mystery didn't quite end there though because for so much new content there wasn't a whole lot of explaining. Features like O-Powers, Pokemon Amie, and Super Training each got about one page in the book and that was it... There's no fun little guide for the clothing and hairstyles you can unlock and how to unlock them and overall the book basically had a very hands off approach, which to me, isn't the point of a guide at all. It's supposed to be there to answer questions instead of leaving you to figure it out. The actual game is amazing, but the guide certainly leaves a lot to be desired in my opinion.
The next thing I noticed was the actual "guide." Now pokemon isn't exactly complicated when it comes to puzzle solving, but one of the big bonuses in a guide is having the answers there if you want them. This guide took more of a "figure it out" sort of approach to the puzzles... again, something a little frustrating considering new content such as the ability to skate diagonally across ice, a feature that, to my knowledge, was in none of the previous games. Instead it included "helpful hints" like "you need to skate diagonally" or "just head right." Again, it's not exactly back breaking but... its a little bit frustrating to leave out of a players guide.
The mystery didn't quite end there though because for so much new content there wasn't a whole lot of explaining. Features like O-Powers, Pokemon Amie, and Super Training each got about one page in the book and that was it... There's no fun little guide for the clothing and hairstyles you can unlock and how to unlock them and overall the book basically had a very hands off approach, which to me, isn't the point of a guide at all. It's supposed to be there to answer questions instead of leaving you to figure it out. The actual game is amazing, but the guide certainly leaves a lot to be desired in my opinion.
November 1, 2013
The guide does have a basic game walkthrough but it's not as complete as I had expected. The small format makes the text difficult to read and makes many of the cave maps, all in dark browns, nearly-to-actually unusable. I have often had to use a lighted magnifying glass to read the guide.
There is more-or-less no post-game content. There's no pokedex. There's no lists of pokemon, items, berries, or any other useful lists. There's not even an index, not even master Pokemon encounter lists. Coverage of the new features is spotty at best, absent at worst. It's like there is "supposed" to be a volume 2 with all the useful info, but... there's not. So you'll use this guide for the basic game walkthrough and you'll have to hit the internet for pretty much everything else. Not the quality and definitely not the contents of past guides. Pretty disappointing.
On the positive side, the hardback feature is nice and the production qualities are great. Physically it's a good book. Sucks that it's small format.
There is more-or-less no post-game content. There's no pokedex. There's no lists of pokemon, items, berries, or any other useful lists. There's not even an index, not even master Pokemon encounter lists. Coverage of the new features is spotty at best, absent at worst. It's like there is "supposed" to be a volume 2 with all the useful info, but... there's not. So you'll use this guide for the basic game walkthrough and you'll have to hit the internet for pretty much everything else. Not the quality and definitely not the contents of past guides. Pretty disappointing.
On the positive side, the hardback feature is nice and the production qualities are great. Physically it's a good book. Sucks that it's small format.
August 9, 2016
The worst of the Pokemon strategy guides in almost 20 years. The book is half the size of a regular game guide so it is impossible to keep open. Some trainers faces and Pokemon are blocked out to prevent "spoilers" of new Pokemon from Gen 6 and the end of the story, but in the age of the internet when information is available the second something is released it just makes Nintendo look behind the times. Don't expect to find pictures of Pokemon like Pyroar in this guide. It is a beautiful looking hard cover, but completely nonfunctional. Only for collectors.
May 14, 2017
Nice guide and very helpful.
June 18, 2014
comprehensive but not overwhelming
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