Final Fantasy Origins Official Strategy Guide

Wow, this book's got everything! Bestiary, secret items, boss strategies, everything. If you seriously are having trouble, get this guide. You won't be sorry, you'll be like " Wow this thing DOES have EVERYTHING!"

I was VERY impressed with this guide when I bought it the other day and I have to say that it's helped me cover alot of material. I had already beaten FF1, but FF2 was probably the hardest for me to complete alone and I'm sure that this is the same for everone else who's played it as it is said to be the HARDEST one in the FF franchise! Without it, I probably wouldn't have gotten as far as I thought. The guide covers both games and includes info on magic, dungeons, Boss strategies etc. and just about anything else you'd expect to know from a Final Fantasy game. And well, thanks to an excellent walkthrough through FF2, I finally beat both games with just about everything covered. (except for 'Normal' mode in FF1) OVERALL: I give it a 10/10! Excellent coverage for both games and a nice way to get through the hardest dungeons in case you get lost. I HIGHLY recommend this book if you are having trouble getting through either game because it will REALLY REALLY help! Never have I seen strategy this good in a long time! BRADYGAMES is the BEST co. to offer these, so I say BUY TODAY!!! You won't regret it! ^_^

It seems that pretty much every video game that comes out now has a strategy guide. Role Playing Games are the ones that need the guides more than others. The games tend to be longer, more involved, and often encompass little secrets that you might not catch the first time through the game. This is the strategy guide for the recent Playstation game Final Fantasy Origins. Final Fantasy Origins contains two games: Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy II. Final Fantasy was first released on the NES during the late 80's and Final Fantasy II was only released in Japan, never America. Final Fantasy: The original Final Fantasy is one of the more straightforward games in the series, but a guide does offer some help. To know what to do next, you have to pay attention to a lot of the clues given by townspeople (plus some trial and error). This guide shows you where to go next and gives a complete spell/item/equipment list for each town. Since you can only learn 3 of the 4 spells available for each of the 8 spell levels, the guide suggests which spells are the most valuable and which ones do not really matter. The guide also includes dungeon maps and shows exactly where each treasure chest is and what is inside it. The guide gives strategy for the bosses and information on what enemies to expect. There is also a complete bestiary for the game and bestiaries for each dungeon. This is a fairly complete guide. I only have two minor complaints. One: the dungeon maps are fairly small, so you must look closely to see if there are any barriers to go around. Also, the maps do not clearly layout which floor is which on the map. Two: the guide does not suggest which level you should be at for each dungeon. It does this once or twice near the beginning, but a recommended level would be nice. These are only minor complaints, and for Final Fantasy, this is an excellent guide.Final Fantasy II: The strategy guide was incredibly helpful for this game. Because of the level up system that increases stats through battle rather than experience, increasing the stats of your characters is a little trickier. This guide offers tips for different ways to do this (one of the more helpful is using the Swap spell from Mysidia on weak enemies from near Altair). Throughout the guide there are screenshots of the characters battling the bosses and this provides a helpful guide to see how many HP you should have at each stage of the game. That was very useful for me. The walkthrough was helpful and allowed me to find every treasure chest and item in the game as well as breeze my way through the dungeons without getting lost. The guide provided some boss strategy, though the two most helpful tips was learning the elemental weakness of the boss, and using the Blood Swords (the Blood Sword made the bosses a LOT easier). I have two negatives: One: Near the end of the game, some of the stairs are marked incorrectly on the map and it made things a little bit more difficult

This strategy guide met all of my expectations, which makes it earn all 5 stars! It has lists of items, bestiary, good boss strategies, and a user-friendly walkthrough. BradyGames has made strategy guides that are over the top, but this one is just enough to be a great guide. Be thankful it isn't another FFIX guide *gag*!

This guide is clearly one of the better guides I've seen from BradyGAMES. Its much better than their Final Fantasy Anthology guide and a great deal better than the Final Fantasy Chronicles. I have about two small gripes with the guide (see below) but I couldn't decide if that should make me lower the rating or not. But since a 4.5 would round up to 5. Theres my decision.First, the Final Fantasy I section. This section is relatively short compared to the 150 Pages for FFII. Anyhow, this leads you through the game from start to finish while explaining the job classes and even gives advice on what job classes you should assign your characters at the start. It also has a complete bestiary and tells you how to complete your collection data. All secrets revealed. This section also tells you the difference between the Normal and Easy modes. It also tells you what stats go up at what levels for your job classes. However, they didn't go deep enough into the job classes. To me this wasn't a problem but to others it could be. My only gripe with this section of the guide is that they didn't give very good Boss strategies. They were all typically the same lentgh and repeated the same thing over and over for every strategy (attack and keep your HP up). They don't go too far into detail to tell you what to expect from bosses. The Final Fantasy II section is done in pretty much the same manner as Final Fantasy. Its just longer because well....FFII is longer than FFI. The FFII section tells you entirely what to expect from the game before beginning. They tell you how to make the best of your characters stats and give a nice little tip on how to bring your characters stats up much faster. This section also has a complete bestiary. The boss strategies are far more detailed than in the Final Fantasy I section....until you get to the point where you get the Bloodsword. Eventhough the Bloodsword is a wonder on bosses (you can take most of them out in one shot!) if you're like me you want difficulty. But because they were busy telling me to use the bloodsword, they never fully told me what attacks I should expect. Now to tell you about the guide as a whole. It covers both games from start to finish with few spoilers. Well, no spoilers under FFI. There were some under FFII but to complain would be childish, being that FFII was so predictable in the first place. But anyhow, my only major problem with this guide is that they didn't provide a world map for either game! Its relatively easy to get lost and lose your way in these games at times. Not always, but the in-game world maps don't help out much. A small little gripe is that when it comes to the dungeons, the maps don't label the floors. So if you go from B1 to B2 you have to look for the corresponding number to find out where you are. But in the final dungeon of FFII be forewarned that you can't really do that. Therefore, they should've labled the floors. This may not sound like much, but