[General Discussion] Won’t you walk this way, walk this through.

I really hate using any type of walkthrough guide in general (official strategy guides or GameFAQs), mainly because I feel it drags down the gameplay exprerience when you have to stop and read something every so often. I'll use GameFAQs if I get really stuck (as in I can't progress in the game), or after I finish a game to find secrets I missed, but in general I never use them while playing the main game.

Nonetheless, I have owned a few during my time. I have the Official DKC3 Player's Guide, which me and my sister used while playing the game together. Honestly, we didn't need it (we beat the first two games perfectly fine without one), but since we somehow got our mom to actually buy it along with the game, we gladly used it while we played the game.

The stupidest purchase of a guide from me was the Tomb Raider III Strategy Guide. As if my purchase of the games alone wasn't stupid enough, I bought this guide that I never used along with one of them. Why was it stupid? Because I never actually played any of these games, I just used codes to beat them. I basically bought them just to see the cutscenes, which now seems like a total waste of money. Of course, buying a strategy guide to a game I never actually played is an even bigger waste.

Jam it back in, in the dark.