Will there be a strategy guide?

[nbinney]

please?

[Soushi_Grapple]

I'd second this seeing as the guide for the original would be pretty un-useful and already super rare.

[Njdeadhead]

I would pick up a copy if they put one out. Why would they not put one out most new games that come out right have guides.

[Soushi_Grapple]

Devil Summoner 2 doesn't have a guide as far as I'm aware. Atlus kinda hits and misses, putting out a guide when it seems profitable (but then, if you were a business, you'd be careful where your money went). Considering its Persona 1, though, this seems likely.

[Kakizaki]

^I am the strategy guide.

[SickleCellAnemia]

^But will I be able to bring you into the bathroom with me? ;)

[Kakizaki]

If you buy me a drink first. ;)

waka, waka, waka!

[Iris]

The strategy guide would only need to consist of three sentences:

1. Get to level 18.
2. Fuse Phaleg and Gozu-Tennou.
3. Kill everything.

I really wish I could tell Atlus Japan that nudging up SP costs by a few points does not constitute rebalancing the game.

[Crabman]

^I am the strategy guide.

If I pay $10 for an online version, does this mean I get "pictures" along with this guide? ;)

[nbinney]

Atlus kinda hits and misses, putting out a guide when it seems profitable

Don't you mean the guide publisher, don't they make those decisions?

[Blackwing Dragon]

Only if they make a game with as much "f*ck you" caliber as Nocturne. Only then can and SHOULD you use one :-P

[Njdeadhead]

I just like to have one. Most of the time I don't use it. Or some times I use it on the 2nd time around to get every thing I did not get the first time.

[RivalShadeX]

I think Doublejump should make a guide for this, they have good SMT guides...

[nbinney]

I think Doublejump should make a guide for this, they have good SMT guides...

Yea, it's too bad they didn't make one for the last Devil Summoner game or Devil Survivor.

[RivalShadeX]

Yea, but I guess that's life, and business...

[Zengaku]

maybe i have only seen a few strategy guides for some of atlus's games for example not that long ago i saw the persona 4 strategy guide

[reason1313]

I still own the PS1 Persona guide. What i would like to know is how much of it will be viable with the PSP version.

If there is a guide for the PSP version, i agree with the majority it should be DJ that does it.

[rainking187]

Double Jump ehhh...If you don't mind paying $40 for a guide I guess. All their guides since P4 have been priced around there.

[slayn]

Double Jump ehhh...If you don't mind paying $40 for a guide I guess. All their guides since P4 have been priced around there.

Good lord you're right. Why the hell are they doing POD? I'm pretty sure I saw djpubba say several times that the Disgaea guide showed that there wasn't really a market for it. If they don't think there's enough interest in a game or guide to warrant an actual print run, you'd think they'd just give it a pass or do an online-only guide.

That said, Persona will likely be a large enough release to warrant mass-producing a guide.

[RivalShadeX]

You are aware, you can buy the POD guides as e-guides for only $9.99 so your comment makes no sense at all...

[slayn]

You are aware, you can buy the POD guides as e-guides for only $9.99 so your comment makes no sense at all...

If I wanted to have my computer beside me while playing a game, I'd save ten bucks and go to GameFAQs.

I think DJ needs to rethink their strategy if they can only justify e-guides and POD. I just can't see that being a sustainable business model. They need to go after some higher-profile games.

[PainKilleR-[CE]]

They already pointed out that if the e-guides don't make them money they'll stop making them. The only reason they make them is because the stores won't order print guides, and they managed to get the rights to make guides for those games.

While they'd like to do more printed guides, they can only do guides for the games they can secure, and apparently the games they can secure aren't high enough profile for stores to order the guides. Soul Nomad made it pretty clear to them that they can't do small print runs, either.

[Kakizaki]

The whole way that strategy guides are handled in North America, from publisher to retailer, is pathetic.

[Foobar]

Last time I bought a guide was Persona 4 and Pokemon Platinum. P4 guide was just kind of a collectors thing, I got it long after I finished the game. As far as Pokemon Platinum goes, I got it because the series just has so much to do in it. That and to reacquaint myself before the Gold/Silver remakes are out.

A Persona PSP guide would be hit or miss for me. If I got it at all, probably just for the sake of collecting it. SMT games have a way of showing me where I went wrong, though, so its not a pressing need. Even Nocturne was all like "You screwed up, deal with it." Yes, even on Matador.

[Alex]

A guide is nice to read afterwards. To see what you accomplished and to know what could have been different. However most guides are cheap magazines.

If it has a hard cover, interview with makers and a lot of artwork than a strategy guide is a must buy for me.

[Yukichin]

I enjoy reading strategy guides and just flipping through them. If they have extras (interviews, art, etc.) than that's even better.


But... DoubleJump's guide for Persona 4 was crap, quite honestly. Misspellings abound, cut-and-pasted information in the WRONG areas, flat-out wrong suggestions....

[RivalShadeX]

You are aware they only had about 3 or 4 weeks to put that whole thing together right, instead of months before like most guides...