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

Just within the past 2 weeks I picked up the Okami and Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth walkthrough guides. These two guides are the first walkthroughs that I have bought which I actually intend to use as I’m playing my game. The very first walkthrough guide was for Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear which I bought solely because it was selling at 99 cents, and I was curious of how a tactical FPS was like.I haven’t really gone through much of either guide yet, but even if I don’t really intend to use these guides, I’m glad that I have that extra “supplement” of games that I really do like.

For this thread, list (and also expound with detail) the walkthrough guides you have and how much you refer to them to help you along. Do you find that these guides are any useful to you? Do you prefer to have something “official” that accompanies games you love or do you find fan created walkthrough guides from gamefaqs just as, if not more adequate and also more economical for you?

Well for starters:

I picked up the Okami guide since after reading that this game takes A LONG time to complete and has many mini side quests along the way, I thought it'd be nice to pick up the guide book along with it, plus it has great illustrations of Ameratsu and the rest of the crew.

As for the Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth guide, I picked that up since I wanted to have a concise yet proper guide to make sure I get all the necessary steps to get the A ending for the PSX version of the game (which I could just as easily gotten off gamefaqs, but c'mon it's Valkyrie FREAKING Profile!).

The guides I intend to get are the VP: Silmeria guide (which is hard as fuck to find), and the Final Fantasy XII LE guide, which is supposedly coming out a full week prior to the game's release, about Oct 20.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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you're going through an RPG with a friend, the two of you can alternate navigator and pilot positions.

That's so cool and nerdy and the same time, it's AMAZING!

There's nowhere I can't reach.

That's true, however, I find there are certain things in side quests you'd have NO CLUE how to do or how to figure out, especially in RPGs, like the "how the hell was I supposed to know that?". This goes with either gamefaqs or an actual guide.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I used one for gamefaqs for Ico. Elixir, if I were to mention every single game that I consulted on, it'd be probably close to 25-30 games.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

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For some games like VP Lenneth and Silmeria

I will agree with you with not being able to find a guide for Valkyrie Profile 2, as I am still waiting for my preorder, which has since long past due. As well, I have seen the Okami walkthrough guide on sale at Best Buy, however on the same token, I haven't come across any of the Valkyrie Profile 2 guides elsewhere.

I was speaking idiomatically.