I bought this game with the hope that they had done away with some of the overly childish and frankly lame additions that were included in the emerald and ruby versions i.e. the pokemon contests for instance. They should have stuck with what they had going good with gold and silver. those games simply added to the strategies possible and made battling monsters that much more exciting. These games are getting further and further away from what they were originally, Battling cool looking monsters and becoming the strongest trainer the world has ever seen. Now it's all about dressing up your pokemon(seriously!) and taking them for walks in a park(couldn't make this up) and baking(baking....yeah that's what I thought too...) they have added in a lot of pokemon that are about as intimidating as a newborn kitten. I feel like less of a man for playing this. Granted there are some cool additions, like the underground were you can go hunt for burried treasure and find fossils and stones and acient plates ect. as well as a couple of cool mythical pokemon. But overall, unless you wish you could dress up your pokemon or bake some poffins with your friends on wifi than I would suggest that this game isn't for you

I bought this game with the hope that they had done away with some of the overly childish and frankly lame additions that were included in the emerald and ruby versions i.e. the pokemon contests for instance. They should have stuck with what they had going good with gold and silver. those games simply added to the strategies possible and made battling monsters that much more exciting. These games are getting further and further away from what they were originally, Battling cool looking monsters and becoming the strongest trainer the world has ever seen. Now it's all about dressing up your pokemon(seriously!) and taking them for walks in a park(couldn't make this up) and baking(baking....yeah that's what I thought too...) they have added in a lot of pokemon that are about as intimidating as a newborn kitten. I feel like less of a man for playing this. Granted there are some cool additions, like the underground were you can go hunt for burried treasure and find fossils and stones and acient plates ect. as well as a couple of cool mythical pokemon. But overall, unless you wish you could dress up your pokemon or bake some poffins with your friends on wifi than I would suggest that this game isn't for you

This guide is bad and lacks much information in the maps, they should've made it as good as the nintendo power version or not at all. I give it two stars because it told me where to go at one point where i was really stuck.

Buy the NP version

Ok, I bought this guide and while it does tell you where to go and how to do things it is kind of hard to understand because you go back and forth between the towns in some parts of the game. It makes it really confusing use it when they are all put in sequence of town when you arent really doing anything in that town until later and then later it doesnt show up you have to look back and figure out where you need to go from there.

The other main reason I bought this book was because it said that it had a full pokedex. I loved the good old days when a pokedex ment you knew the pokemons evolution levels and what level they would gain a new move. It would tell you what TMs that pokemon could learn and all that. This guide is not for you if that is what you are looking for! It basically just showes the pokemon and what page # to find them on. And that doesnt help either because it doesnt really tell you much about them on those pages either.

So in my opinion this guide is somewhat usable but very confusing and doesnt give the right information. I would try nintendo power guides instead.

The good thing about this guide is that it tells you what to do. It also has tons of stuff in the back of the book like contests and where to find all items, HMs and TMs. I would never have beat the game without this guide. The bad things are that the pokemon trainers and their pokemon are not listed and the order of events are way too confusing. Many are out of order and some events should be listed toward the end of the book, such as "Unfinished Business". Overall: OK

The only benefit of using this guide is that it's portable. It is vague and the page order doesn't exactly follow story order. The guide doesn't give any pokedex info, which IMO is the most important part of the game. Instead it focuses on general aspects of the storyline, contests, battling, and other parts of the game that are explained IN THE GAME.

There is no reason to buy this book, instead, buy the second volume/pokedex of the guide. If you get stuck in these games, instead of wasting your money on this vague and confusing guide, go to Google and search for "Pokemon Diamond Walkthrough"

I compared this guide side-by-side with the one from Official Nintendo Pokemon Diamond Version & Pearl Version Player's Guide and the Nintendo one was much better in almost every respect. My main gripe is with the Pokedex, which has very little information. For me, this is what I really want it for, and so it makes a big difference. It should be noted that in both guides are for the leading up and including the Elite Four battle. After that, you need to get one of the National Pokedexs. Note: for the National Pokedex, go with the Prima one, the Nintendo Power does not have the locations where you find the Pokemon.

This guide is very complete, however, the way they organize it is quite confusing. It is not really a walkthrough. Each area has a walkthrough but then at the end they add all these things to do after you have beat various other gyms or visited other areas. I find myself flipping back and forth more than I would normally except in a walkthrough. Luckily I have a lot of Post-it tabs to help me through it.

This book gave me great tips and had a lot of good info about contest items. Overall full of great info about my Pearl And Diamond game.

This book was easy to follow and was very useful for solving the initial game. However, if you are only going to buy one book or you are trying to catch all the pokemon, the volume 2 pokedex is even more useful.

I bought this guide thinking it was a PokeDex. Had I known it was just a walkthrough I wouldn't have bought it.

However, for a walkthrough it is alright. It is a little jumbled and disorganized, but it has lots of information.

Many of your Reviews about this guide say that after the League, it ditches you. Or, that there is not a full pokedex. Well, do any of you see the big VOL 1 on the right hand corner of your books? That means Volume 1. Which means, there is a Volume 2. I have volume 2, and says nothing about the pokemon league or gym leaders, etc, But it does talk about everything you can do AFTER beating the pokemon league. And there is a Pokedex which lists ALL 490 Pokemon. So Buy that Book Instead.This book though, I Have Never Read. So Based on Your Reviews, This Is What I give It.

Great guide for my son's evergrowing Pokemon collection. It helped him a lot to beat the game.

My son is 8, and he just loves this guide book! I have to pry the Guide out of his hands most nights, he takes it to bed to continue reading. He enjoys looking up the statistics for each of the new Pokemon and telling his friends what he learned. He was frustrated a couple of times because the Guide does NOT tell him step-by-step how to get to a certain place; instead it provides info on what to do when he does get to that place, and he gets to use his own brain to get there. And he was very excited when he learned what he can do only on Friday....this is definitely a useful resource for the DS game and any Pokemon fan.

After a big delay in getting it to me in Alaska for my son's 8th B-day, it was a close call in him missing it. Once it got here, I was relieved to have it before he came home.He was excited to get it.

Very good when starting the game, but as soon as you obtain the 8 gym badges, it is not of much use.

Like all of the Pokemon Guides, this one has an awesome cover. And it has awesome art inside. But don't let that fool you. If you just want cute little pictures and screenies of Pokemon, get this guide book. If you want an actual GUIDE, go on the Internet. I was thinking, 'Wow, this book is gonna be awesome' as I ordered this book from amazon. Now I'm beginning to have some doubts.

As I said before, great art and stuff. But let's talk about the guide here. The format of the guide is VERY bad. Instead of going in the order of your adventure in Sinnoh, it talks about each route and each city. They aren't in order. They talk about Fantina before Crasher Wake.

I found the list of moves for the starter Pokemon pretty useful, actually. And the charts in the back were a huge help to me. And the PokeDex wasn't so bad either. But...if you're looking for tips about how to beat the Gym Leaders/Pokemon League, then don't look here. All they say is some gibberish and tell you to use Pokemon that are super effective are their Pokemon. That's it. Come on, you don't need a guide to tell you that Water is super effective against fire!

I quote this from the guide. It's about the eighth gym leader, Volkner. They're supposed to give you 'tips' on how to beat him. Here's what they said:

'Those recent renovations have really made Sunyshore Gym an impressive mae of passages that you must connect by pressing buttons. It'll be pretty tricky to figure out the right combinations to get to Volkner, though maybe not as tricky as the eight Trainers standing between you and the Gym Leader. As for handling Volkner, dish out some Ground-type moves on Raichu and Luxray, go for the Electric-type on Octillery, and then put Ambipom to rest with hard-hitting Fighting-type moves. The thrill of victory will include the Beacon Badge, and TM57 Charge Beam.'

They don't even tell you how to do the puzzle. But it was pretty easy anyway. But that's not my point. Just to tell you how useless this guide is, I beat Volkner with my Empolean. He's a Water-Type.

Let me tell you what you need to know to get the full benefit out of the walkthrough portion of the guide.

Fire>Grass, Ice, Bug, Steel
Water>Fire, Ground Rock
Grass>Water, Ground, Rock
Electric>Water, Flying
Ice>Grass, Ground, Dragon, Flying
Fighting>Normal, Ice, Rock, Steel, Dark
Poison>Grass, Bug
Bug>Dark, Grass, Poison, Psychic
Dark>Ghost, Psychic
Dragon>Dragon
Ghost>Ghost, Psychic
Normal>N/A
Psychic>Fighting, Poison
Rock>Bug, Fire, Flying, Ice
Steel>Ice, Rock

That's not all. The guide DITCHES you after you beat the Pokemon League. Not one word on the three Areas, Battle Tower, or Pal Park. Nothing.

Now I'm done ranting. Now you can decide if you want the guide.

Horrible. So confusing it doesn't make sense. Heh, the game guide doesn't even go in order. It goes by area, listing things you aren't able to do until the end of the game.

This book is a complete waste of money. it gives very few clues on how to complete the the game. Buy the Nintendo DS version instead. That guide shows everything you need to get through the game. This Prima version is a complete rip-off. Make sure the cover has the Nintendo DS heading. Prima was sneaky and pretty much used the same image the Nintendo guide has on its front cover. I wasn't paying attention and picked up the Prima version. Big mistake!!! Stay away from this stinker!

This guide by Prima games is preety good, but it definitely has a few flaws.
I'll get the bad points out first. It tells you WHAT items to get, but sadly, it doesn't tell WHERE to get them. Also, the startegies for the bosses aren't that good, but that's okay. But the biggest insult is that for the puzzles in gyms, it doesn't tell you what to do. Same with victory road. It just says ''move the boulders using strength to solve the puzzles. Please. And another big point is that it doesn't have a full pokedex. You'll have to buy it sepeartely. It doesn't go into a lot of detail in it's walkthrough. That really blows when you're stuck in victory roead, and you don't know what to do. There is a couple of mistakes like saying that the eighth gym leader is the seventh, and a couple of other mistakes in the book. For some reasons, the guide tells you to go to a place, only to tell you that you need to go back. That really frusterated me in many places.

The book is preety big, and none of the pages are wasted. It involves a fair amount of page flipping to see if there's anyhting you can do in a town that you've already been to. The charts help newcomers by the type chart that all hardcore pokemon gamers know. It also has a neat list of all the tms and where they are, and a description of ALL battle moves. The contest section helps out a lot if you're into that type of thing, but personally I think it's a waste of time. The introduction section is preety good for poke beginners, and even has some things that some longtime pokemon gamers didn't know, so check it out. From what some previous people said,you might think that the nintendo power is better and cheaper. It isn't. I have both, and I think that the Prima guide is much better for theat matter.

But on the other hand, the guide really helps you to find all the items and tms. Also, it has a good guide to help you in the wi-fi, and how to do it. And the maps are preety detailed, which really help you to get to certain areas, and where to go in caves. It is a good guide to help beat the game, but if you want a pokedex, buy that instead of this guide. I bought this guide because I trust Prima games when it comes to pokemon guides, and I ahppen to dislike Nintendo Power guides. I know that it sounds like I complained a lot, but really, all those negative points don't detarct from the overall experience and I'm really happy that I bought this guide. Buy this and the pokedex when it comes out, but if you can only buy one, choose if you want a pokedex more, or to beat the story more. You owe it to yourself to buy this guide. I give it a four out of five stars.

I find out that the guide was pretty helpful in helping me getting on the right track. It also allow me to find out what kinds of pokemons is in that specific area.

There are apparently 2 of these books. This one does not have the complete "pokedex" for all the little critters...how they evolve, where there are found, etc. A week after I got this for my son along with the "diamond game", he was spending his own $$ at Wal-Mart to get the other prima guide (that looks very much like this one) that did have the whole pokedex...perhaps this one is an earlier printing, or there are 2 books on purpose so the publisher can make more money capitalizing on kids' and parent's confusion and ignorance.

I am very disappointed with the quality of this strategy guide. It does not explain how to do anything after beating the elite 4 (the pokemon champions that you battle after collecting all of the badges). There are so many different legendaries to catch. Other prima guides eg. those for pokemon ruby and sapphire, were much more complete. They explained everything, start to finish, even the different activities to do after beating the elite 4. The pokedex section is incomplete. This book is just a gimmick to get you to buy volume 2 (the pokedex) as it even says inside that there will be 8 more pokemon in the official pokedex (the 8 that are missing probably). I hope that in future the prima guides will be as good as the one for pokemon ruby and sapphire, because if the rest are as bad as this one there is no point of buying a strategy guide; you can just get free walkthroughs on the internet that explain more than this guide.

Actually the guide tells you like any other guide the how to's, but what I didn't liked is the fact that it doesn't have an evolutionary chart with levels and attacks like in the previous guides. I had to go to a website to at least find how to evolve the pokemon, which the one thing I love to do the most with these games.

My son got this for his birthday and looks at it every day while he plays Pokemon Diamond.

I bought this guide about a month ago a little while after I got Diamond and Pearl. Overall it's a fairly good guide, though the organization can be confusing at times. As many other people have said, this guide does lack a proper pokedex (all it has is where to encounter all the Sinnoh pokemon), and it ends at the Elite Four, without continuing to explain all about the fight zone or Stark Mountain or how to get the other 343 non-Sinnoh pokemon. But if you look in the top-right corner of the cover it says that there is a "Volume 2". This guide (it says) will have a complete pokedex and post-story guide.

I would suggest this guide to anyone who owns Pokemon Diamond and Pearl, and feels that they might need some assistance in completing the story-mode. The book does have high quality pictures of almost all places, both outside and inside, with few exceptions. If you are looking for a guide on how to catch every pokemon and complete the story after the elite four, save your money and buy "Volume 2" when it comes out soon:Pokemon Diamond & Pearl Pokedex: Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides)

when i bought this, i was fully aware that it had no pokedex, as it would be impossible to cover all of the species and each area of the game in the number of pages the book is listed to have. The description on the page should be changed however, because it states "Each area of the new Sinnoh region will be comprehensively covered so players will be able to find all the new Pokémon", yet this guide only covers areas in the game up until the Pokemon League area, where Victory Road is and where you battle the Elite Four. There are a plethora of other areas untouched on the map that you cant reach until after you defeat the pokemon league. I am still baffled as to how im supposed to reach most of these areas, as the book never mentions any of it. There are no strategies or mention Battle mountain, Resort Area, Survival Area, Stark mountain, Route 224, Route 227, Route 230, Route 229, Route 228, Route 226, Route 225, Full Moon Island, or New Moon Island, which i have heard of from [...].
I would not recommend this guide for someone who actually needs help completing the game.

A helpful walkthrough for the Pokémon Pearl and Diamond games is accompanied with useful charts and a Pokedex section.

The service was very fast and the book was new and in good condition. I was very impressed.

I wish i would of known this before i bought the guide. The guide doesnt have a full pokedex doesnt where to get pokemon or there secific moves or anything beside 150 pokemon from shinnoh and the walkthrough. At first i was very dissappointed in prima but i saw nintendo guide wasnt any better no pokedex.So i said i guess it would be kinda hard to make a pokedex on this game cause of so many pokemon. Then I saw the front say volume 1 scenario guide. Then i found a paper note in the middle of the book say volume 2 complete pokedex guide 493 pokemon guide coming may 27th. Then i said to myself i knew prima wouldnt let me down its a little after the release but understandable if they making a complete pokedex guide with all of the whooping 493 pokemon. Thats amazing because in order to get all of them you have trade online or get them from sevreral past pokemon games which takes enormous amount of time. So the guide is covering several games to make a complete guide. Thats going to be well worth the money. So Im not mad anymore it would of been weird to have vol. 2 without vol.1 the walkthrough anyway. Big
Ups to Prima a company who actually cares to make a complete pokedex guide.

It does a decent job with telling where stuff is without spoiling everything.

But really could use a more completed Pokedex section. Its nice to know the name and numbers of the Pokemon. Its more helpful if you were actually told about what moves and what level they learn them. It also would have been terribly helpful to learn when they evolved and under what circumstances.

Do yourself a favor and get the guide Nintendo did for this game. It may not have the flashy graphics and flare of the Prima guide, but at least it gives you a move list and evolution status.

Pokemon Diamond and Pearl are amazing games, with as much or more to do after beating the "Elite Four" as getting to that climax point. This book doesn't begin to cover the vast scope of these games. The good points about the guide book include maps, and key events in each area leading to the Elite Four (the first half of the game). There is no information whatsoever about the second half of the game.

There are many, many bad points. Errata are common. The guide is poorly organized - I found myself lost over and over, with the need to go online to find out where to go next. The guide gives only some hints of what to do next in each area, and at that, the user needs to flip back and forth between different sections of the book every few minutes. One of the worst aspects of the book includes a total lack of information about the more than 300 Pokemon that become available to the player after beating the Elite Four. The guide doesn't list these Pokemon anywhere, so the user must either take many hours playing to find any given Pokemon or go on-line for answers. Also, other than for the three "starter" Pokemon, there is absolutely NO Pokedex in this guide, and not even information about how and when the Pokemon encountered in the first half of the game will evolve. This would be marginally acceptable if the Pokedex Prima will put out in a month were to be available at the time the games were released, but the Pokedex isn't scheduled for release until late May or early June.

If you want maps for the first part of the game, buy this book. Otherwise, it's a waste of money - go on-line for a real guide.

This is the very first Prima Guide I have been disappointed in. Not only is the walkthrough lacking in detail, but it lacks good organization. I dont mind the step 1, 2, 3... thing, it's the fact that they list all the major things you can do now and in the future on a particular route on the page the first time you encounter it. It confuses me because I dont know the gym leader order or the badge names or anything else (I am not one who reads way far ahead). Another thing is it doesn't show what the trainer's pokemon are and for the visible items on the ground it doesnt say which are which. There is no full pokedex, its not even half a pokedex. Its a list of pokemon, doesn't say who evolves to what or what type they are. If you want that kind of info you have to wait until volume to of the guide comes out. In summary, this guide was a big let down and I dont think it is worth anyone spending even a penny on.

Before you go on, I just want to say that much like the Nintendo Power Guide, Prima's guide doesn't have a proper Pokedex. It's got a list of all the Pokemon you can catch, but no full Pokedex full of the moves lists, stats, evolution, etc. This has come to be expected of Pokemon guides, but keep in mind that if you want a guide for the Pokedex, you won't get it here and you won't get it from Nintendo Power's Guide either.

Third party guides are always something of a debate. On one hand, they just look better than some of the first party guides and often provide information that isn't normally found within a first party guides pages. On the other hand, they're third party. It's not straight from the pros. Prima is pretty well known for pumping out fairly good Pokemon guides (save for their Fire Red/Leaf Green guide), and I expected this to be a brilliant guide. It's not bad, but for a Pokemon guide as big and thick as this, you expected they'd cover so much more of the game than they did.

The introduction chapter is nice but long. Much like Nintendo Power's guide there's a lot of information to swallow here. Newcomers would do best to start here, but really, there's nothing that anyone who has played a Pokemon game doesn't know. If you've been with Pokemon for a while, most of it should be pretty natural to you now. Still, the information contained here isn't bad. It's just that Pokemon hasn't changed so much that those who've been playing don't know this already.

The walkthrough, the meat and bones of any strategy guide is where things get a little hectic and the guide reaches a high point. The walkthrough isn't perfect, nor is it as well organized as the walkthrough by Nintendo Power, but it definitely works well and can get you through the adventure. It feels like it lacks, detail however. The guide is written in a step by step fashion. That is it says: Step 1, and then goes on to explain step one. The problem with how this guide utilized its step by step walkthrough is that I know what to DO, but not really WHERE I do it, and the screenshots don't really help either. So its great that the walkthrough is written like this, but it would've been nice if like Nintendo Power they told you where to do this stuff. They detail all the return trip stuff in some nice detail, though. However, there are moments when in the walkthrough the guide will lead you somewhere only to tell you you can't do anything and to turn around. It's really annoying to go all that way only to have to turn around. Also, the guide tells you what items can be obtained in an area, but it doesn't show you where the items are on the map. It points berries and the like, but that's about it. While it helps you find Gym Leaders, the suggestions they make are also not all that helpful. Again, though, I can't be too upset with this considering this is Pokemon, where as long as you know your opponents type, putting together your own strategy should be no problem at all.

Really, the walkthrough isn't bad, but it does feel like it's lacking detail from time to time. Such as the maps looking like generic screenshots or the lack of actual screenshots. Yet what you get from the walkthrough is really helpful and detailed, even when it seems like its not. The Prima guide really is a good guide to have. Perhaps it just doesn't have that flash.

All the stuff after the walkthrough like the contests and the wi-fi connection is also really really helpful. Yet the Pokemon lists is really not. They'll show you all the Pokemon you can catch and then tell you where to catch them. That's it. No moves list or anything. To an extent it's pretty useless, but I suppose you could make do. However, the coverage of the wireless connection and contests is more than willing to make up for the loss. Especially the wi-fi connection as its pretty new and Prima devoted an entire section to it.

Afterwards we get into the charts and appendices. All the stuff is here, but like a lot of appendices in guides, there's a lot of it, which means a lot of page flipping. The guide will already have you flipping pages as it is at 296 pages (most of which is actually just unfilled space, you're really not getting anything here that isn't in Nintendo Power's Thinner guide). At least you can look back there if you're unsure of a move, TM or HM, and the like.

Overall the Prima guide is actually a pretty good guide. There's not a whole lot here that isn't in the Nintendo Power guide. If you're looking for a better organized guide then go with Nintendo Power, but that shouldn't suggest in anyway that the Prima guide is bad. Again, though, it's becoming a pain to always have to wait for a separate Pokedex to come out, and here it's no exception. Prima will release a Pokedex sometime in May, so if you need one, that's when you can get one.

Before you go on, I just want to say that much like the Nintendo Power Guide, Prima's guide doesn't have a proper Pokedex. It's got a list of all the Pokemon you can catch, but no full Pokedex full of the moves lists, stats, evolution, etc. This has come to be expected of Pokemon guides, but keep in mind that if you want a guide for the Pokedex, you won't get it here and you won't get it from Nintendo Power's Guide either.

Third party guides are always something of a debate. On one hand, they just look better than some of the first party guides and often provide information that isn't normally found within a first party guides pages. On the other hand, they're third party. It's not straight from the pros. Prima is pretty well known for pumping out fairly good Pokemon guides (save for their Fire Red/Leaf Green guide), and I expected this to be a brilliant guide. It's not bad, but for a Pokemon guide as big and thick as this, you expected they'd cover so much more of the game than they did.

The introduction chapter is nice but long. Much like Nintendo Power's guide there's a lot of information to swallow here. Newcomers would do best to start here, but really, there's nothing that anyone who has played a Pokemon game doesn't know. If you've been with Pokemon for a while, most of it should be pretty natural to you now. Still, the information contained here isn't bad. It's just that Pokemon hasn't changed so much that those who've been playing don't know this already.

The walkthrough, the meat and bones of any strategy guide is where things get a little hectic and the guide reaches a high point. The walkthrough isn't perfect, nor is it as well organized as the walkthrough by Nintendo Power, but it definitely works well and can get you through the adventure. It feels like it lacks, detail however. The guide is written in a step by step fashion. That is it says: Step 1, and then goes on to explain step one. The problem with how this guide utilized its step by step walkthrough is that I know what to DO, but not really WHERE I do it, and the screenshots don't really help either. So its great that the walkthrough is written like this, but it would've been nice if like Nintendo Power they told you where to do this stuff. They detail all the return trip stuff in some nice detail, though. Also, the guide tells you what items can be obtained in an area, but it doesn't show you where the items are on the map. It points berries and the like, but that's about it. While it helps you find Gym Leaders, the suggestions they make are also not all that helpful. Again, though, I can't be too upset with this considering this is Pokemon, where as long as you know your opponents type, putting together your own strategy should be no problem at all.

Really, the walkthrough isn't bad, but it does feel like it's lacking detail from time to time. Such as the maps looking like generic screenshots or the lack of actual screenshots. Yet what you get from the walkthrough is really helpful and detailed, even when it seems like its not. The Prima guide really is a good guide to have. Perhaps it just doesn't have that flash.

All the stuff after the walkthrough like the contests and the wi-fi connection is also really really helpful. Yet the Pokemon lists is really not. They'll show you all the Pokemon you can catch and then tell you where to catch them. That's it. No moves list or anything. To an extent it's pretty useless, but I suppose you could make do. However, the coverage of the wireless connection and contests is more than willing to make up for the loss. Especially the wi-fi connection as its pretty new and Prima devoted an entire section to it.

Afterwards we get into the charts and appendices. All the stuff is here, but like a lot of appendices in guides, there's a lot of it, which means a lot of page flipping. The guide will already have you flipping pages as it is at 296 pages (most of which is actually just unfilled space, you're really not getting anything here that isn't in Nintendo Power's Thinner guide). At least you can look back there if you're unsure of a move, TM or HM, and the like.

Overall the Prima guide is actually a pretty good guide. There's not a whole lot here that isn't in the Nintendo Power guide. If you're looking for a better organized guide then go with Nintendo Power, but that shouldn't suggest in anyway that the Prima guide is bad. Again, though, it's becoming a pain to always have to wait for a separate Pokedex to come out, and here it's no exception. Prima will release a Pokedex sometime in May, so if you need one, that's when you can get one.