Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII: The Complete Official Guide

Some might call it 'cheating,' but I call this book a lifesaver. With how the game is set-up, this book makes things so much easier. I know where to go, what to do, and how to play. Now before I used the book, I tried to play the game and managed to mess up a lot of stuff in two days. I wasted too much time and didn't do enough side missions to gain the auras I needed to sustain life (extend my playtime). I'm one of those people who likes to gain experience by "walking in the tall grass for hours on end." This isn't something you can afford to do in Lightning Returns. This book lays everything out and explains how to go about being successful. Yes, it's a tad confusing at first, but you eventually catch on and understand its layout. I will admit, that it's not as easy to follow as the XIII-2 book, but it is still super helpful. Just give the guide a chance and it will grow on you. And if it doesn't, at least you got a DLC with it, right? Oh and some pretty bookmarks and a map! Aside from being super helpful, the graphics are simply amazing. Everything is super crisp and clean. It's absolutely gorgeous. And the feel of the book? Ugh, it's to die for. It's so elegant and smooth. The cover is excellent. It just begs to be shown off. I currently have it laying on a table as it's just so elegant looking. I think it's worth every penny and recommend it to people who could use the extra help. I know I needed it! If anything, it helps remove a lot of frustration.

This just might be the nicest strategy guides I own. The dust jacket is really nice - the illustration and feel of it. Both the dust jacket and the hard cover have a velvet-ie type feel to them. I try to complete games once without the aid of a guide, but this game basically demands one. I got to day 7 without the guide, only to realize I missed like 2,394,723,478 things once I read it. It is very easy to miss stuff in Lighting Returns. This guide is very detailed and comprehensive. It has more than 300 pages. Given the time constraint within the game, the authors have laid out several different styles of walkthrough to maximize the limited amount of time players have. It has a New Game+ walkthrough as well. Everything is covered - from when to complete main and side quests, to every piece of equipment and how to acquire them. Even maximizing EP expenditure is covered. This is a very nice guide that also includes some decent DLC content. It is very much worth the extra pennies if you cannot decide on this one or the paperback.

The Final Fantasy 13: Lightning Returns official legendary guidebook is well worth the pay. I praise this book for content but mostly quality. The quality of the book is phenomenal; I almost want to get the paperback version as well, just so I don't have to use the legendary edition. The content has almost everything you need from character backgrounds, game lore, quest information, to a great and extremely useful bestiary section; it even contains beautiful pieces of art from the game (it also serves as a nice art book too).The only thing I thought the guide could use was more information in the quest section, particularly pertaining to the main quest section. The guide tells you everything you need to know on how to complete the quests, but it doesn't explain what is going on during the quests very well. Now, this is probably just a personal pet peeve of mine, but I like to have the main scenarios written out in case I haven't completely grasped what is going on during the game. I will say though, the game itself does an excellent job at explaining the game for those slower players (like me), but it would be nice to have it in the guide as well for when I forget a thing or two. Other than that, the guide is amazing.

This guide has all you need to accomplish the best first play-through, but not in the way you would use guides for other RPG games even including the first 2 entries of the trilogy. As you may already know, Lightning Returns' game play introduces a "real-time" game play. Lightning has 13 days to save the souls of humanity, which is basically the main quests and as many side quests as you could possibly complete. 45 seconds in real life is half an hour in the game. Therefore, the best use of time in this game is to accept multiple side quests while doing main quests if you care to do a best first play-through. The "walk-through" section of the book actually contains 3 sections: Walk-Through, Main Quests, and Side Quests. The Walk-Through is very short; it's basically an itinerary of what you should do to optimize efficiency. As a result, you have to constantly refer to different sections of the book, and that book, with all its fancy papers and prints, is not that easy to flip through. The problem is, say the Walk-Through section tells you to refer to Main Quests section, then you flip to main quests to work on the current main quest, and when you flip back to the Walk-Through section, you'd just realize it also tells you to work on a side quest during the main quest, but it was too late for you to put back your own game itinerary. As a result, if you want to do the best first play-through, you can't read it while playing the game (which is how people usually do it with a game guide); you have to do an in-depth reading before playing the game, or at least before playing certain section of the game. I guess what the writer(s) and/or editors of the book could have done is to arrange the 3 sections together to match the main-quest-side-quest inter-vine nature of the game, but oh well, this is the only guide for the game anyway...

La guida è fantastica come tradizione piggyback. Completa ed esaustiva. Non si può chiedere di meglio ad una guida per un videogioco

I really enjoy the Final Fantasy 13 trilogy and I felt that I needed to get this so that I had a bit of an idea with the quests. It also goes along with my Final Fantasy 13 -1 , I'm waiting on the 13-2 guide book. I also have always really liked the Square Enix Guide books, I own a few of them. Condition was amazing and it even came with a HUGE poster of all the areas in the game! That is going to be so helpful! Very Pleased with my purchase and would recommend! I was also surprised at how cheap it was at time of purchase and now it's gone up in price. Lucky I got it when I did!!

Perfecta,igual que todas las otras guías de juegos anteriores,no me di cuenta de que era en inglés,pero tampoco es un problema porque la entiendo perfectamente y la guía en castellano aún no está disponible,así que menos da una piedra ^_^

sehr zu empfehlen, lehrreich und gut nachvollziehbar. nicht bereut. ich würde es immer wieder kaufen. kann es gut für meine Malereien nutzen.

First of all, if you are planning on playing Lightning Returns, then get this guide. Trust me, with the odd time progression system in the game, this will be very helpful. The great thing about this guide is that it has excellent detail, and has been organised very well, making it perfect for those looking to complete a large part of the game on the first playthrough. There are some minor problems with the guide though, in terms of layout. Due to the time element in the game, they have taken a well organised approach to compiling the guide, but it isn't exactly user friendly. On a typical playthrough, you'll be using the walkthrough, side quest and main quest pages. The walkthrough isn't long, but covers what you should be doing on each day in decent detail. If you are doing specific side quests then the walkthrough will then reference other parts of the guide (such as pages in the Side Quest or Main Quest sections, or the main quest number), so that you can view a more detailed guide about what it is you need to do. Luckily, the 2 ribbon bookmarks are very handy here when you have to do some referencing on multiple pages in the guide. Another issue is that the maps for each main location isn't printed in the book. Instead, they have been printed on a massive double-sided poster, which can be really frustrating at times. The guide also contains a massive amount of information about the game mechanics, which may be useful for those who don't quite understand the time mechanics in the game, a short 100% (Ultima) walkthrough, and extra section which shows some of the games art, and the free DLC. You'll actually get two DLC codes, one for PSN and one for Xbox Live, so you could actually give the other code away if you wanted. Overall, the guide is excellent, and it will really come in handy when playing such a complex looking game, even if the layout is a little odd...