I don't think Prima is
all bad. I have their WarCraft II, Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight, and X-Wing guides. Those ones are pretty decent. While I can't really talk for sure about the strategy portions of the WC2 and XW guides, they do make for some fun reading, just in the way they're laid out. I enjoy them more for the "story" aspect than any help I get from them in a strategic sense.
The JK book, in addition to being a fun read (one of my favorite lines: "Some people consider sniper tactics cowardly. Then again, some people like to march in straight line and wear bright red clothes while guys behind trees kill them. Who wins in the long run? Hint: Check your local government flagpole."

) was also pretty much spot-on (so far as I could tell) with their walkthroughs and maps. So I don't think Prima is a
total waste.
By the way, the official FF7 guide I have is from BradyGames (much like the "infamous" GTA San Andreas guide...).
The information, as far as I can tell, is actually all there in this guide, but it's laid out like shit so you're likely to pass by half of what before you realize it was ever there.
General Zod wrote:It also had superior maps. I never would have made it across that snow-zone-maze thing if it weren't for the maps in the unofficial guide. The ones in the official guide book simply weren't that helpful and were rather confusing in comparison.
Indeed. There's no way I can ever hope to get Alexander (or most of the rest of the stuff there) without this guide's help. I looked in the official one, and it's maps did indeed suck verily.
2000AD wrote:Man, am i the only guy that went through the game without a startegy guide? Why does it take a strategy guide to get through the game?
Oh yeah, i remember. When i got to Sephiroph my characters were only around level 60, i hadn't even attempted to breed chocobos and i didn't have a clue what this Knights of the Round thing that everyone was talking about was. If they're going to make a game where you have to do all the sidequests to be able to win they could make it a little more obvious, i was pissed when i thought i had beaten Sephiroth then he turns all angel like and supernovas my guys.
Excuse the poor quality...I took all of 30 seconds to make this.