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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain: The Complete Official Guide Collector's Edition
A Must Have for the Metal Gear Solid Collector!!
EXCLUSIVE TO THE COLLECTOR’S EDITION A lithograph by Yoji Shinkawa, an art gallery, an exclusive hardcover and additional content.
THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO 100% All missions, all side quests, all secrets, all collectibles, all Achievements and Trophies – at your fingertips!
TURNKEY An at-a-glance, map-based walkthrough steers you through the entire adventure supported by annotated hi-res screenshots.
ALL GAME SYSTEMS Statistics, diagrams and analysis from our experts provide a comprehensive understanding of all game systems and features, including the Mother Base management metagame.
A WEALTH OF Includes an extensive story recap, a poster covering the immense game area and much more!
Developed directly with Kojima Productions in Tokyo.
MAINTAINING From the same team that brought you the highly acclaimed guides to Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots and Metal Gear Revengeance.
QUALITY Carefully designed to avoid unnecessary story spoilers.
EXCLUSIVE TO THE COLLECTOR’S EDITION A lithograph by Yoji Shinkawa, an art gallery, an exclusive hardcover and additional content.
THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO 100% All missions, all side quests, all secrets, all collectibles, all Achievements and Trophies – at your fingertips!
TURNKEY An at-a-glance, map-based walkthrough steers you through the entire adventure supported by annotated hi-res screenshots.
ALL GAME SYSTEMS Statistics, diagrams and analysis from our experts provide a comprehensive understanding of all game systems and features, including the Mother Base management metagame.
A WEALTH OF Includes an extensive story recap, a poster covering the immense game area and much more!
Developed directly with Kojima Productions in Tokyo.
MAINTAINING From the same team that brought you the highly acclaimed guides to Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots and Metal Gear Revengeance.
QUALITY Carefully designed to avoid unnecessary story spoilers.
400 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 2015
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January 15, 2017
Great guide, great game, but incomplete without Hayter!
September 23, 2015
Piggyback's Collector's Edition Guide for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is a lavishly-produced tome with many insights, illustrations and key walkthrough information, but with a handful of problems that keep it from achieving true greatness.
Much like the previous hardcover guides produced by Piggyback, this continues the trend of "official" MGS walkthroughs. A large chunk of the guide (50+ pages) is devoted to explaining key gameplay mechanics like bullet drop distance, stealth tactics and more. Each mission gets two-to-three pages devoted to it, with full map illustrations, speedrun tactics and effective strategies. There's a massive number of development charts for everything in the game, and there's also a 36-page art gallery with illustrations by Yoji Shinkawa and brief commentary by Hideo Kojima (to say nothing of the lithograph that comes with the book).
It really is a complete/turnkey walkthrough in every sense of the word, and it's carefully written so as to not spoil any story elements earlier than intended. There are a lot of nice illustrations and maps throughout the pages, including explanations of key buddy mechanics and diagrams on how to obtain the goodies found throughout Mother Base and the rest of the gameworld.
That being said, there are a couple of deficiencies here. It's almost unbelievable that Konami refused to give permission to Piggyback to detail the contents of Mission 46 ("Truth: The Man Who Sold The World"). That's some Final Fantasy X--Bradygames-guide-level bullshit. Telling people that you won't reveal how to unlock the mission (in actuality, you just keep doing Side Ops for a while until it opens) or what it entails (a twist that could be easily guessed by anyone but the most ignorant players) is disingenuous to the extreme, and the fact that it refers you to another website for "further updates" is a slap in the face.
I also found that the quality of the art gallery and lithograph was not as good as the MGS 4: Guns of the Patriots guide. While the illustrations themselves are just as good as before, there's very little Kojima commentary, and the litho they give feels cheap considering the paper they used. A far cry from MGS 4's glossy "Old Snake" litho.
Still, this is an incredible guide that would look great on any player's bookshelf. It didn't really need any bells and whistles to make it worth purchasing, but the litho and included full-color foldout map were very nice.
Piggyback's MGS V guide is well worth a purchase and your time. Definitely check it out if you get the chance.
Much like the previous hardcover guides produced by Piggyback, this continues the trend of "official" MGS walkthroughs. A large chunk of the guide (50+ pages) is devoted to explaining key gameplay mechanics like bullet drop distance, stealth tactics and more. Each mission gets two-to-three pages devoted to it, with full map illustrations, speedrun tactics and effective strategies. There's a massive number of development charts for everything in the game, and there's also a 36-page art gallery with illustrations by Yoji Shinkawa and brief commentary by Hideo Kojima (to say nothing of the lithograph that comes with the book).
It really is a complete/turnkey walkthrough in every sense of the word, and it's carefully written so as to not spoil any story elements earlier than intended. There are a lot of nice illustrations and maps throughout the pages, including explanations of key buddy mechanics and diagrams on how to obtain the goodies found throughout Mother Base and the rest of the gameworld.
That being said, there are a couple of deficiencies here. It's almost unbelievable that Konami refused to give permission to Piggyback to detail the contents of Mission 46 ("Truth: The Man Who Sold The World"). That's some Final Fantasy X--Bradygames-guide-level bullshit. Telling people that you won't reveal how to unlock the mission (in actuality, you just keep doing Side Ops for a while until it opens) or what it entails (a twist that could be easily guessed by anyone but the most ignorant players) is disingenuous to the extreme, and the fact that it refers you to another website for "further updates" is a slap in the face.
I also found that the quality of the art gallery and lithograph was not as good as the MGS 4: Guns of the Patriots guide. While the illustrations themselves are just as good as before, there's very little Kojima commentary, and the litho they give feels cheap considering the paper they used. A far cry from MGS 4's glossy "Old Snake" litho.
Still, this is an incredible guide that would look great on any player's bookshelf. It didn't really need any bells and whistles to make it worth purchasing, but the litho and included full-color foldout map were very nice.
Piggyback's MGS V guide is well worth a purchase and your time. Definitely check it out if you get the chance.
July 26, 2016
An amazing book full of info and strategies. I bought this book after i completed the game on PS4, XboxOne, Xbox360 & PS3 and i STILL found it informative.
My way of completing missions is still the best though!!!
My way of completing missions is still the best though!!!
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