Pokemon HeartGold & SoulSilver: The Official Pokemon Johto Guide & Johto Pokedex: Official Strategy Guide

4 Responses to “Pokemon HeartGold & SoulSilver: The Official Pokemon Johto Guide & Johto Pokedex: Official Strategy Guide”

1. Carita says:

   March 18, 2010 at 6:02 pm

   This guide is full of useful information about the games Pokemon HeartGold / SoulSilver. It is part one of the two guides that are going to be unrestricted for this game, the second being s national pokedex that will also be dealing with the Kanto section of the game. I am finding it reasonably useful… Now that I dug out my magnifying glass. This is why I am giving it four stars and not five.

   I realize that not everyone in the world has vision issues, but while the main text is readable, the side bars and many of the charts (which arguably contain some of the most valueable information, such as go-sets that are listed in the Johto-dex) are written in a font that is less like newspaper print and more like the writing on a medivine bottle. I realize that with how huge this guide is — and therefore with how much info it is full of — that building the print in areas larger would have made it heavier. Its just a pain having to cart a magnifying glass around with this when the purpose of the guide was for use when I cannot get to my computer to research things. (and the fact that I can do this does make the situation a small more forgivable, but still… If I want to know if Chikorita gets a go at 18 that its next form doesn’t while in the car I should not need to lug a magnifying glass around…)

   I do want to point out that I am really relieved that they are doing this as a two guide set. Who knows how tiny the print might be had they been forced to combine this into one book? Or what information might have been omitted in order to preserve its practicality to be physically used? If you can read the print or can find something simple that will let you see it more clearly, this is a *very* well made book. The take in is shiny, the paper quality is honest, the text is written *clearly* — my viewing issues are not caused by weird colours being place agaist each additional. There are fantastic drawings of various characters to introduce each chapter (a nice touch for fans or persons who might be interested in drawing some of these people) and each pokemon gets a nice picture of each of its forms in the Johto-dex (yet again, nice for fans or persons who like drawing Pokemon.)

   Overall, the Pokemon HeartGold / Soul Silver Guide to Johto is very well done with brilliant production values. Provided that you are not place off by the print size and that you are aware that it is part one of a two part series of guides, the second of which will focus on the Kanto half of the game. I am reasonably pleased with my buy, even if it is giving my magnifying glass a work out.
   Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
2. Charles J. Pan says:

   March 18, 2010 at 8:29 pm

   This Book Helped My Son A lot. My son just loved it, goes fantastic with the games Heartgold and soulsilver, an brilliant combo.
   Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
3. J. Bivens says:

   March 18, 2010 at 10:57 pm

   This book is incomplete at best, it’s half a guide, only provides the johto half of the game and is even marked book one of two. It is a rather in depth guide but rather than putting it out as a whole guide with the additional one either attached or part of the same guide, they milked it for all it’s worth by splitting the sport guides in two so they could make more money, bottom line, CHECK THE SIDE OF THE BINDING BEFORE YOU BUY IT! Amazon won’t tell you that it’s vol. 1 they want you to buy it so you have to buy the additional one as well. There is no info for Kanto region or the second half of the game in this guide, FOR EITHER GAME! I like the info provided but I am appalled at the fact that they continue to money gouge people by splitting everything in twos and threes, the games, and now they are doing it with the strategy guides, except now it isn’t one for each of the games, it’s half of both games now, half later. I am giving you my opinion not asking for you to judge or right me, if you want to add something useful to what I said, please make your own post and place out the trolling, I don’t want to hear what you reflect of me, this is my opinion, not yours! They left out reasonably a bit of useful teacher info from the guide. I was thinking just one at 3o to 40 dollars would be nice, as a replacement for of 2 guides at 15-25 each. By the time you end buying all of these, you might’ve just tried looking it up online, you just spent about as much as a groundbreaking new game costs. More so that way after buying TWO full priced guides, as a replacement for of one reasonably priced one.
   Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
4. Michael Hoang says:

   March 19, 2010 at 1:25 am

   This guide book is incredible! It walks you through each map in the Johto League (Not Kanto). It shows you where all the hidden items and TMs are, where all the Pokemons you can catch in the Johto region are, etc. It factually shows you step by step if you ever get stuck in the Johto part of the game. With information this detailed, I am certainly getting the Kanto walkthrough book of this game when it comes out.

   I highly recommend this book to Pokemon lovers. If you are the kind of person who gets lost in the game easily, this is for you! 5/5
   Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5