I bought this guide for one reason and one reason only; to help me get through the tower of lost souls but there is very little strategy for the specific levels, just some vague pointers. King of the physical realm has beaten me, beaten me like a red headed step child. The guys are way too strong and I have no advice to help me. Sigh I think I would learn my lesson. Never buy fighting game strategy guides. The only real help is a list of the character's moves and you can get that by hitting the start button during the game and going down the menu which tells you the characters moves. On the plus side there is some nice art work and bios on the characters but if I could do it over I would buy the regular guide. Or maybe none at all.

When I think of a game guide from BradyGames, I think of the exquisite job they did on The Legend of Zelda:Ocarina of Time or other guides I've purchased from them in the past. If I didn't know any better, I'd swear the folks @ BradyGames hired some Prima writers with the farce they published between these two (NOT LEATHERBOUND, Amazon) covers. With the exception of the nice character shots, this book is worthless. Especially as a moves list.

In someone's lazy attempt to hit the beach early one weekend before this thing went to press, the controls for the X-Box 360 & PS3 aren't even included! They show both controllers in the very front of the book, with a legend that a cursory glance will have you assume is just explaining the differences between Sony's 'geometric' approach vs. Microsoft's traditional A/B button styles.

Well, you'd be wrong. My husband has never played the PS3 console so I was going to let him glance thru' this book while playing the game to help him familiarize himself with the button layout and character combo lists. What I found out was the book just takes BOTH consoles' controllers and then maps a legend all their own over that! For instance, when you look up a character, say Voldo, and want to know how to perform a simple kick, you'd think the writers would list the corresponding 360 and PS3 buttons respectively. Nope. In the moves list kicking is pressing "K"...What the heck is "K" you ask?? yeah, so did I. You'll have to refer to the front of the book again, where the diagram of both controllers is, to see which button they re-named "K". And so on.

It's hard enough to explain what they did, let alone figure out the coding they created to cover both controllers' button functions.

Why they didn't just release two different books is beyond me. I haven't listened to the OST yet, but even if it's crap, it's still better than the travesty that is this BradyGames guide, and other than the nice (but limited) artwork, is the ONLY reason this isn't a 1-star review. I'm shocked at the level of laziness it took to crank this out.

I pre-ordered this thing because it was solicited as being "leather bound". I was stoked that Brady was really giving this special edition the business. so Amazon tells me they are out and delayed until September THE DAY it is released. A week later they change the description so it no longer reads that it is bound in leather and then I go to cancel my order and I can't because my merchandise is being "prepared". The book comes with the CD but if I had known that this thing was the exact same book as the normal version otherwise, I would not have purchased it. The book gets low ratings not because it is a bad supplement, it is quite good... but because Amazon or Brady got me to order this thing through false advertising so don't reward them by purchasing it here.