Customer Reviews
Good book all round - By: , 18 Jul 2008 
This is a reallly good book to tell you where alll 150 Pokemon are in the Sinho Region. It also tells you where to find items as well as giving advice. Suggest getting the book if your staring the game for the first time,but still a good way to round up alll the Pokemon. It also tells you how to beat the Pokemon league.I'd reallly say GET THIS BOOK.
disappointing - By: Amy Pike, 31 Aug 2007 
When I first looked at the strategy guide, I thought it looked like just what I wanted but when I came to play the game it just seemed to be set out in the most haphazard way.
I wanted clear maps with details about where pokemon/items/key characters could be found. I got pictures of pokemon which could be floating about somewhere on the page if they could caught with a key which I didn' understand. I often missed the pictures or had to look to find them in between alll the bright colours & often random text boxes. The items were labelled on the map, but not what the items. There was a key below the map saying which items could be found in the area but say if I wanted to find a shiny stone I'd have to guess which pokeballl on the map contained it. As for key characters, forget it.
Important pages, like how to improve your pokemon's happiness was just inserted randomly, & was not easy to find again when it was needed. I didn't think the descriptions of locations on these pages was very helpful.
Oh & I was also annoyed that the guide stopped as soon as you defeated the elite four. I appreciate that that is pretty much the end of the shinnoh game but at least a little about the large portion of the map that can now be accessed would be nice.
however, maybe I'm being unfair & it does have the things I want from it (alllbeit somewhere random) in it somewhere but I've become so frustrated with being unable to find what I want at a glance & resorting to the internet for tips, that I sorely regret buying it.
New and Old - By: Mr. Nihaar Cherodian, 17 Aug 2007 
Now let me tell you i liked this game though having played alll the others this seemed good new start ..... this guide is very thick & does have alllot of tips, plus a guide too alll the pokemon in the game that you can capture in Sinho .... i dont like the idea of buying volume 2 becasue i though it would of alll been in volume 1 like in the original pokemon Blue walk through it had the guide adn then a big pokedex including facks adn figures about each & every pokemon in the game ...... why o why couldnt they put it alll into one instead of making you buy more than you should have to ..... this is nintendos tactics & just like they have done with the wii controllers
Gotta catch em all... wait, it'd be good to know what they all are first! - By: Mr. H. Earle, 17 Aug 2007 While I don't disagree with the other reviewer, I would hasten to say that the guide is laid out in an extremely confusing manner, with events that you cannot do until halfway through the game mentioned near the beginning of the guide, & areas which you won't be able to explore yet mapped & covered as soon as any portion of that area Could be entered.
What I'm saying might sound confusing - that's because it's a reallly confusing way to lay out a guide! I found myself having to flick back & forth through the guide many times to play through the game in a linear fashion.
My other gripe is that some of the information in this guide is missing, or just plain wrong. It's nothing huge, it's just very obvious that the people who wrote this guide (or at least those who typed it up) have never played the game.
My final disappointment is that the pokedex is not included in this guide & that we'll have to pay another £10 or whatever if we want detailed info on each pokemon. Not very good value for money.
Having said alll that - If you reallly want a pokemon diamond & pearl guide, this one will do!
Gotta catch 'em all (again) - By: J.Yasimoto, 03 Aug 2007 
This is another weighty tome; weighing in at just a shade under 300 A4 pages. I play the Pokemon RPGs purely to beat the 8 gym leaders & win the Pokemon league. So alll I'm interested in is the walkthrough which is more than adequately covered. You have either a 3 page, 95 point quick walkthrough, or a 172 page highly detailed walkthrough that not only tells you what to do but introduces alll the pokemon extras. Impossible to go wrong.
For those of you wanting to delve deeper into the Pokmon world, everything else is covered. Contests, wireless play, underground info, trading, TMs, HMs, berries, etc. All this information is presented in a very clear manner & would be accessible to young children.
The only thing missing is a detailed Pokedex listing alll the Pokemon, their evolutions & learned moves, & where to find them. This will be avaiable next month (Sep 2007) in the companion volume: Pokedex Vol 2.
I would have given this guide 5 stars, but for the fact they've split alll the info over 2 volumes. It could have been squeezed into 1 volume (the Emerald guide being a great example).
