Elden Ring Official Strategy Guide, Vol. 1: The Lands Between

details just about everything youd wanna know when playing the game, dungeon walkthroughs, quest guides, weapon and armour stats, a bestiary and much more

To be honest that might've been because of luck as the box it was shipped in was crushed during the process, but the book itself arrived unscathed. The condition of the book was very important to me as i look at it as a collectors item.

My son got the game for Christmas and he's working his way through the books now can't seem to put them down well worth the money

Yeah, you could use websites for a lot of this info. But what are you, some filthy plebeian gamer? Truly maidenless behavior. Those sites are infested with ads and bad formatting anyway. You're better than that. This book is official stuff, truly a work of art and labor of love. It won't answer every single specific question you may have (what a foolish presumption), but it gives you the info you need to navigate this huge game. Don't give clicks to those foul gaming journos, desperately clinging onto their jobs by writing mediocre guides online. Or wikis that give you so much detail that there's no longer any sense of discovery--this guide gives you just enough. Return to physical, embrace the old ways.

If you are not familiar with Future Press and you are a fan of High-Quality Collector Video Game Strategy Guides then look no further. FP is quite honestly the Mercedes of printed guides. High Quality, insanely accurate, and exhaustively researched. This Volume includes everything you need for a full and complete walkthrough including all endings etc. for Elden Ring.Volume 2 will be more of a Beastiary, with full info on all enemies and bosses you meet on your travels but don't worry, Volume 1 is as complete as you need to beat the game and find everything. As others here have mentioned, Amazon's packing was under par and I also had a slight dent on one corner but this isn't Future Press's fault. Hopefully, someone @ Amazon reads these and packs them better later.5 stars for the Book and its quality and info. Also comes with a huge, 2 sided Map of the entire overworld of the game area.2 Stars for Amazon's bad packaging.Also note, these books have a high resale value as they always sell out and do not get re-printed so don't wait! Just check the re-sale prices on their past Dark Souls editions and you will see!

Even though I beat the game shortly after it came out, I thought this looked cool enough to be worth buying. And it is! The maps and art are cool, and I'm enjoying a new play through using the guide to see what I missed the first time when I went in blind. There are a few flaws, however.The biggest is what I mentioned in my title: The bookmark is starting to fray after a few days of use. I keep the guide on my coffee table as I play, leaving it open and glancing over occasionally. I only use the bookmark rarely when I turn to another section for an extended time, like when in a legacy dungeon, or when I close the book after I'm done playing. I'm pretty careful with the book. But as shown in the photos, it's gone from very slightly frayed when I first got it to almost an inch of fray. I wrapped some tape around it until after I'm done with this playthrough and I put it on a shelf so that it doesn't get any worse. It's pretty disappointing that it's already coming apart after the lightest use.And the guide itself has some issues. I've run into quite a few typos and simple errors, such as giving incorrect page numbers when referencing another part of the book. The most egregious was in one of the quests where it was telling you where to get the specific item you need to complete that section. Rather than telling you on the quest page, it sent you to the section of the book that goes through each region. Not only was the page it sent me to completely wrong, but it wasn't even a page for the same region the item was actually in, leaving me completely lost and pouring over the maps in the book for that region until looking it up online in frustration and finding out I had no chance of finding it in the book until I would have stumbled on the info hours later when I was in that other region's section.The guide also warns you in the quest section that some NPCs have certain triggers that cause them to skip parts of their quests or fail them entirely, like activating sites of grace in certain areas. But then in the region guide, for a world boss strategy, it will tell you to run past the boss to activate a grace site that's closer to the battle area than the others, not telling you that it's one of those that will progress NPCs' quests. There are just a bunch of little things like that that I've noticed, and if I hadn't already completed the game, I would have been pretty annoyed that I skipped some parts of quests without realizing it due to the guide's advice. So take its instructions with a grain of salt.But if you're looking for a book that will look good on your shelf and that has mostly good info that you can just refer to occasionally, I'd recommend it.

This is a truly incredible guide to have while playing Elden Ring. Especially at the price ($40 at this time). The detailed maps and NPC story guideline are key for ensuring nothing is missed. Of course you can find the same info on the awesome community wikis, but there's something cool and convenient to have a physical book while playing. Part of it appeals to the older days of RPG gaming with thick guidebook, and the amazing RPG that ER is makes for the perfect fantasy game experience in today's age. I'm eagerly awaiting Vol 2 for the continued knowledge on combat and equipment guides, which is not included here. I also wish the index was more fleshed out. The way it's structured, you'll probably be flipping back and forth constantly between the maps/dungeon guides and the storyline sections. I haven't mentioned the hardback and page quality is great, no notes. The map is huge but can be partially folded and flipped during use and so far it's holding up. I highly recommend this book if you're considering.