Elden Ring Official Strategy Guide, Vol. 1: The Lands Between Hardcover – November 17, 2022

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

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

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!

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.

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.

It's a beautiful book. Great quality art, text, maps, and even a huge foldout map that, for the fans, has two sides, with and without the map markers, in case you want to frame one side in particular. A flaw exists in my copy due to the way it was shipped, stored, or handled, where it lay on an angle in the box with no padding for an extended period of time, and Gravity magic made it bend a little. Easy to fix, but , thanks Amazon?The chapter flow is interesting, it separates walkthroughs by world map and legacy dungeons, so doing a blind walkthrough with this book as your only guide will require page flipping, book marks, or the little color coded sticky thingies you can put on the edges of pages.This is a nice alternative to things like Fextralife and Wikigaming wikis, however, because there's no slow down from ads, annoying twitch streams autoplaying in the bg and sucking up my bandwidth, and, well, at this point, cutting up a bunch of trees to make paper and using it a bunch of times is probably more green than using up the power and bandwidth every time we need to look up Ranni's questline. And even those wikis can have incorrect information, due to ignorance or patch changes (although at this point it's accurate 99-100% of the time)Now for the actual cons: there are a few errors, typos, and misnomers that may confuse someone, without the internet to fact check. This the age we've come to. We have to use the internet to fact check a book (and i still dont remember how to write a proper bibliography, sorry high school teachers.) I'd already logged over 200+ hours by the time this book was released and sent to me, so a lot of the actual errors i found were apparent, like one section mentioning a completely different area as part of a questline, then going back to mentioning the correct area, things like that.The biggest fault for this game is the index because it does not include npc's or questlines; essentially, there's a section from pages 349 to 500+ with nothing indexable. The questlines walkthrough are why i mostly bought this book, and not being able to look up an NPC or questline on a whim, w/o the internet, was a huge misstep with this book.Despite all that, the index at least has the decency to contain weapons, sites of grace, and quest items. I have not checked the accuracy of said index, but i would hope the index is correct in what page the items are noted on, but even then, it doesn't list each page the item is listed/mentioned on, only the one page it's marked on a walkthrough mapDespite the shortcomings, it's a fun little player's guide, the biggest of it's kind, i would think, and much like the game, it's a beautiful but flawed masterpiece.

Unfortunately one of the corners of the book was bent, was disappointed in that.But as for the book itself, amazing. Future Press put so much effort into making sure this would be a comprehensive and well designed book for Elden Ring players. The level of detail is wild and you can tell they really took their time with the details. For that reason I give it 5 stars, but be warned that the packaging is not the best.

I am a huge fan of the game first and foremost. People who are familiar with the Dark Souls games as well as Elden Ring will probably agree that the lore in these games is very interesting. I purchased both of these books for Elden Ring. They fill in all the lore gaps and answer all the questions I didn't find out playing the game. High quality hard cover book with glossy thick pages. I highly recommend this serious of books for anyone wanting the whole Elden Ring world given to them in great writing and vivid illustrations.