Product Description

This official guide covers your epic journey through Dragon Quest™ from start to finish. Using detailed 2D and 3D maps, the guide shows where and how to find every item. It also provides an extensive monster chapter giving you the low down on each of the minions of darkness that stand between you and the completion of your epic quest. An incredibly in-depth secrets section covers all there is to see and do in the game presenting the Monster Arena, hidden treasures, the Casino and much more! Containing original and exclusive artwork, this guide is the best weapon to lift the fiendish curse.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #172279 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-01
• Rating: To Be Announced
• Platform: Windows
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 230 pages

Customer Reviews

Say Hello to Your New Best Friend
Dragon Quest is a giant game. No matter how you look at it. The only way you'll be able to conquer the game and find every amazing secret is by investing your time in this guide. Piggyback hasn't just contruscted a guide, they've given you a friend. Here you'll find secrets that cannot be found in any other guide. Tips that work without flaw. This is how you master a game, by investing in a Piggyback strategy guide.

The book is divided into sections. The "How to Play" chapter is exactly what it says. It's very concise and to the point. New to the world of Dragon Quest? Then this is exactly where you should begin with this guide. However, this isn't just a guide for the beginner. Piggyback has also considered if you're an expert of the game. Therefore, even pro gamers can find some useful tips they may not have known before in the "How to Play" section.

Afterwards, the guide moves on into the characters section. Here, you get a run down of all the characters skills, spells, and weapons. Each character is also presented with an experience chart. In this chart you'll be able to see what each characters stats will look like at each and every level. The staff also provides fantastic tips on just which skills you should concentrate on, and why you should concentrate on them. You'll feel nearly invincible using this guide.

The items list is also extremely detailed. For each item you don't just get the basics, but also what it takes to make it, and what recipes you can use it in. In addition, for the weapons and armor sections you'll be able to tell which characters can equip what items. Afterwards, there is an exhaustive recipe list for the alchemy pot. Every single recipe is listed in this guide.

Each monster in the monsters section is detailed with all the stats that are important. Each monster has its stats detailed. HP, MP, attack, defense etc. In addition, you'll learn the habitat which this monster roams, special attacks they use, and (most important) the rewards for defeating these creatures along with the chances of them dropping these items.

By far the best part of the guide is the walkthrough itself. Each section is littered with 3D maps (and 2D for towns, which really helps as well). These maps are populated with item locations, and preferred routes. The walkthrough is brutally detailed. You won't miss a single item. You'll find every infamous monster. You'll defeat every boss in your path. All this is done without spoiling any aspect of the game whatsoever. So even those who are afraid of a guide spoiling the surprises will be quite surprised. For example, the guide doesn't show you screenshots of the bosses to keep your surprised. Dragon Quest is a fabulous game, and Piggyback knew it. This walkthrough is spoiler-free. Even better, the guide reads well with the respective screenshots. In several guides you've got to interpret which screenshot goes with what text. Piggyback gets rid of that. Their screenshots are labeled with numbers. If you come across something you don't understand, they'll tell you exactly which screenshot you should look at. And it helps.

Perhaps the biggest reason to invest in this guide is for their secrets. Every little secret is explored in this guide. About halfway through the secrets section you'll come across a Top Secret section that is sealed. This section is specifically made for those who have completed the game. The guide even tells you so. Here you'll find the most lucrative secrets of any Square-Enix game. There are minor spoilers in this section, but you were warned before you ventured into it. Still, as a whole, this is the only way to master all that Dragon Quest has to offer.

As if Piggyback wasn't kind enough already. With a guide so big, so exhaustive, and full of such fantastic advice, you might find yourself lost. Luckily there's an index. Navigating a strategy guide has never been easier.

If you want to master Dragon Quest and learn everything the game has to offer, then you owe it to yourself to buy this guide. If not for the walkthrough, do it for the secrets. Piggyback hasn't just given you a strategy guide; they've given you a friend. One who is willing to tell you all the secrets of Dragon Quest without spoiling the game for you. By far one of the best strategy guides ever written.

A beautiful Guide for one huge RPG !
This is a great guide for one of the longest/biggest RPGs on the PS2.

One problem about Dragon Quest , is that you can easily get lost on the world map if exploring new areas. The game is that huge.
The best thing about this guide are the high quality maps that you can hold in your hand while you play the game now , to know where to find everything / if you're going in the correct direction.

The rest of the information in this guide can be found elsewhere on FAQs on the net , but the maps in this guide are a great blessing and something that can't be produced on a text-file FAQ on the internet.

So yeah , with this guide in your hands , the hardcore RPG kind-of-gamer who wants to get every secret and not miss out on anything , will pretty much have the power to gain everything from this game.
But then again they also don't have to use it too often , as it would spoil the fun of doing this jorney/adventure on your own..... only refer to it if you're stuck/lost.

Well to tell the truth I don't really buy guides for games , as it usually does ruin the fun and take out any effort from the game.
But one reason you should get this guide , is because it's such a work of art itself !

This guide is made from high quality material and full of lovely illustrations / layouts.
The monster and item guides are particularly wonderful to glance at, not to mention extremely useful.

It's great to see the highly detailed illustrations of portaits of the characters/monsters/items and maps on paper in beautiful print !
This guide is full of presentation and quality!

So if you're either stuck on the game or just a fan who likes the drawings/characters from this game , it's a nice item to buy !
But yeah don't use it too much , it'll spoil the fun , but appreciate it as a lovely work of art among game guides more instead !

Massive guide to a massive game
Dragon Quest is one of the biggest games I have ever played, there is so much to do in the game that you can easily lose your way in the world. With this brilliant guide however, you'll never get lost and you will be able to find out everything. The guide has maps of every area showing where every chest and object is, complete tables on every spell, item, monster and weapon as well as all the information on the Alchemy Pot. It's also great that the walkthrough is spoiler free and saves the secrets for a sealed section towards the back.