Donkey Kong 64 Official Strategy Guide by Brady Games - Complete Walkthrough & Tips for Nintendo 64 Game - Perfect for Gamers & Collectors

For Donkey Kong 64, you need a really good guide. They're so many hidden bonuses you would probably never even notice so a guide comes in handy.This guide (by BradyGames) is good overall, but there are a couple problems. I will explain the good and the bad things for this guide down below.The Good - Fortunately there is a lot more good than bad in this guide. It's very descriptive but does not over complicate the task that is given. Also, the photographs help see where to go in the game.In this guide, each character needs to collect five golden bananas in each world and this guide tries to provide individual strategy's for each character's five golden bananas. (In some areas they go by each task than by each character.)The Bad - The maps in this guide don't get the job done. There are too many items crammed on one page which make it very difficult to understand. Also there is one golden banana missing in this guide. One of Lanky Kong's DK isle bananas is not discussed in this guide. (It's spotted when you first enter the entrance to Jungle Japes; there is a giant boulder on Lanky Kong's music pad.)Despite a couple problems it's still a good buy. This is a great but not perfect guide that I recommend.I bought both the Nintendo and the Brady Games Versions; both are accurate and reliable but the Brady Games Version's maps try to stick all the Kongs together whereas this one has a separate copy of each map for each area for all the Kongs thereby making the Nintendo Version's more readable and easier to understand, and it gives you a "3-D" map for the Frantic Factory Level's machine which is very much needed and helpful; Nintendo's version also shows where all the Kongs' colored bananas are for those of you who are completionists.I didn't bother with the Prima Version because when I used their Ogre Battle 64 one, it, although it was very useful and had a lot of accurate maps, the a high percentage of the information was false/inaccurate/missing, switched pictures (e.g. the Angel Knight and the Seraph), and (if I remember correctly) did not mention probably the most important element for the game for a completionist: the Chaos Frame. I presume that their Donkey Kong 64 Guide will be of similar repute.Conclusion: The Nintendo Version of Donkey Kong 64 Guide is the most accurate, easy to read and understand, and complete of all three companies.loved how the book is in it's descriptive details and how it brought back such good memories with the cool kongs.This book is GREAT. It is well organized and the maps are easy to read and very helpful. The maps show where every single banana, banana bunch coin, Banana Fairy, and Battle Arena is. It gives detailed desriptions for each golden banana and blueprint. It also covers the Mystery items and strategies for Kong Battles. One of the best things about this is that it is organized into easy-to-read sections: A 12 page section for each level (except the last), each divided into a title page, which displays the name of the level, the amount of Golden Bananas needed to enter, any Kongs that are rescued in that level, and the way to get to the lobby. The next 10 pages are 2-page sections for each Kong that explain where to find each Golden Banana, banana, and coin for each Kong. The last page shows a complete map of the whole level with locations of the banana fairies and the battle arena.Don't own this book but I read this book and the maps in the guide were plagiarized from the Nintendo guide, complete plagiarism, Don't buy, get the Prima guide or the Nintendo guide insteadthe Golden Banana? the American Dream? is anyone seeing the connection? this is social allegory at its finest. Schmidt and Bogenn play upon the secret hope of all of us, to find the "strategy guide" that will impart upon us the "surefire trick" to "defeat the boss" and attain the "Golden Banana." ....... Written under Marx's ideological wing, this guide teaches that EVERYONE can use these techniques, and WE ALL can "beat the game." The only obstacles are the bosses and their minions (the capitalists and the police that exist to protect their property), and that there are enough bananas for every proletarian monkey to be satisfied if only they learn to work together.BradyGames seem to make the best strategy guides out for all games in general. I have used the Xenogears, Final Fantasy VII and VIII guides by Brady and now I have used the DK64 and all are worth the purchase, easily understood, the maps are done well, and the guides are competently organizedThis is the best book to lift you spirits and learn how you might be abled to solve some of you own problems. I recomend this book to everyoneItem was what I was looking for and if good conditionGreat condition!!