Shadow Hearts: Covenant Official Strategy Guide

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This Paperback Book item from BRADY GAMES was reviewed on 25-Oct-2008.

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1) Paperback Book Shadow Hearts: Covenant Official Strategy Guide by BRADY GAMES. I bought the guide on line after I had purchased the game online. I think I paid like $17 and had to wait at least two weeks for it because it was shipped from Switerland!??? When it came in I was so excited because I am a huge SH fan, but when I opened the package and took the book out, I was very dissappointed. I knew there couldn´t be much to this guide when it only had roughly 160 pages to it. I mean, the game itself takes at least 50-60 hours to complete, and that´s not including the side quests. Sure the guide mentions things I would not have other wise figured out on my own(maybe), but when you´re really needing some crucial help, it´s not there.

I guess buy the guide if you´re a big SH fan, you know , just to have, but otherwise, just look up a walk through online and don´t waste your money.¤

2) Paperback Book Shadow Hearts: Covenant Official Strategy Guide by BRADY GAMES. Sure this book has everything you need to get through Shadow Hearts II, but since it relies solely on verbal descriptions, you might as well not waste any money for something you can get for free on Neoseeker or Gamefaqs, or some site like that. The only reason I got one is because it was $1.25 at a game shop. $1.25 is cheap enough for me to pay for the convenience of not having to look up a good FAQ, but a price in the teens definitely is not. Don´t buy this unless you are an extreme fan who wants to see some repetitive concept art.

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3) Paperback Book Shadow Hearts: Covenant Official Strategy Guide by BRADY GAMES. I´m very suprised that this game has only gotten a 2 star review. I LOVES THIS GAME and still do. It wasn´t the best I´ve played but it´s definitely on my favorites list. The characters make me laugh. I guess the reason people don´t like it as much is because of the ending.¤

4) Paperback Book Shadow Hearts: Covenant Official Strategy Guide by BRADY GAMES. No Maps.
Directions (NSEW) often reversed.
Many, many items MISSED.
No guidance on sidequests
No information on Magic crests
No information on items/armor/enhancements
No "strategy" provided.

Nice picture.¤

5) Paperback Book Shadow Hearts: Covenant Official Strategy Guide by BRADY GAMES. Usually Brady´s Walkthroughs are pretty good. Whenever it comes to the comparison between Brady´s and Prima, Brady always score better. Nonetheless, the Shadow Hearts: Covenant walkthrough is something that takes you there but not really there.

The book has a pretty good layout for the main story walkthrough. You will have no problem tackling the main story. However, the main drawback is it doesn´t have an area map. The dungeons for each area are really big. So simply describing where to walk is not enough as there are places that can confuse you when it comes to how it looks like. There is a small compass map in the game which I think Brady´s, if they want to spend more time to make a perfect walkthrough (like the FF X one), they could trace those maps so that we actually know where we are going. Of course after you spend quite some time inside the dungeon you will start to recognise the areas, but walkthroughs without dungeon map could be quite disappointing.

Then it comes to the side quests. The arrangement of the side quests are quite random too as some are at the beginning of the appendix and then others are at the end of the appendix, with a huge section of glossary in the middle. So you will need to flip to and fro to look for the one that you are doing. Which could be pretty annoying. Further the description of how to achieve you goals are too simplistic that you sometimes can´t figure out what they are talking about. For example, in the Dog Shrine, sometimes they address the name of the stone tablet but sometimes they describe the stone tablet. This causes more confusion than helping. It will be much better to actually guide the reader by naming the stones themselves. Further it will help a lot if they actually show how the puzzles are like. They did that in the Omnimusha walkthroughs, I cannot understand why they can´t do it here this time. The Aromatherapy information of Lucia also lacks the details that one would expect too.

Nonetheless, the section of what needs to be achieved by area and by character is very helpful and easy to access. This gives the reader a clearer idea of what needs to be done. The Solomon´s Key solution and the Solomon´s Trial solution are pretty good too, though there are one or two mistakes in the Solomon´s Trial reward section.

The walkthrough does have pretty good boss and enemy strategy though, which is a very good side of the walkthrough as some people might need to rely on this to handle difficult bosses.

In all, the Shadow Hearts: Covenant walkthrough is not all disappointing, but it doesn´t really show the depth and completeness that Brady´s guides usually deliver. It´s not bad and it´s not good either, it´s a lurk warm production for a very addictive and enjoyable game.¤

6) Paperback Book Shadow Hearts: Covenant Official Strategy Guide by BRADY GAMES.

BradyGames´ Shadow Hearts Covenant Official Strategy Guide includes the following:

Platform: PlayStation 2

Genre: RPG

This product is available for sale in worldwide.

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