Editorial Review
BradyGames' Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire Official Strategy Guide provides expert tactics to win all badges for both games! A step-by-step walkthrough taking gamers from start to finish. Solutions to the new puzzles, rosters for every new trainer, and more! Plus, tips to defeat every trainer and gym leader, coverage of the new Pokemon in each version, and how to catch, breed, and raise them!
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Customer Reviews
Go Keena70! 
2005-10-29
This is the best guide ever. It does not have a Snotedex. 'Tendo and Primer have a Snotedex though.
This says "Sabdshrew," which means "No mistakes." The sandy waterfalls, Tendo calls slippery slopes. Rock Crush. Tendo says Rock "Smash." "Smash" is a word for two-year-olds!
This is a big strategy guide. It'get you past everything. If you get Tendo or Prime, start over. You MUST 'gree with me!
Get this. If you don't, then you will get stuck.
Without a guide, you do great too. Buy this, you year-old!
I am Crabbiest! See ya next time on the Bad Word-No Show!
Best Guide In The Milky Way! 2005-10-24
BUY THIS! THIS IS THE BEST GUIDE EVER! IT HAS EVERYTHING!
IT EVEN HAS LOTS OF THINGS! THE NINTENDOPOWER IS BOOBOO!
Stupidity Of Stupidity! 
2005-10-24
Too many mistakes! Do not buy it no matter what! NEVER EVER BUY IT. I recomend the Nintendo Power or Prima.
GET NINTENDO OR PRIMA'S GUIDE...'NUFF SAID 
2005-04-30
I have all three Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire guides out there - prima's, nintendo's, and (shudders) brady's.
Bradygames' strategy guides either are downright awesome or downright bad, and this guide is answer B. This was the first of the three PR&S guides that I bought. I went home, played the game with the help of this guide, and without leaving Littleroot Town, went out to EBGames the next day and bought the Prima guide.
Bradygames includes a decent walkthrough of the game with detailed info, but that's about it. The guide has a list - just a basic list - of all the Pokemon, but forces you to buy a whole other $15 book to get info on the other Pokemon. May I note that in both Prima and Nintendo's guides, they include just as full Pokedexes but in the same guide? Yeah, that was a huge downside of the Bradygames' guide. Also, the walkthrough really could have been more detailed now that I think about it. After I compared the three guides, Nintendo had the best walkthrough, Prima came in second, and guess who came in last.
I'm getting tired of listing endless bad things about Brady's Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire guide, so I'll just say:
BUY NINTENDO OR PRIMA'S GUIDE...'nuff said!
It's a pretty picture book... 2004-03-08
I bought this guide and found that everything in it is exactly what I could have figured out on my own. No PokeDex and nothing about breeding pokemon except one lousy sentence. This guide is horrible! Buy a Prima or Nintendo guide instead if you want helpful information. This book is a dud...
NOT GOOD, AT ALL!!! 2004-02-19
BradyGames' Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire Official Strategy Guide provides expert tactics to win all badges for both games! A step-by-step walkthrough taking gamers from start to finish. Solutions to the new puzzles, rosters for every new trainer, and more! Plus, tips to defeat every trainer and gym leader, coverage of the new Pokemon in each version, and how to catch, breed, and raise them!
Keena70 says: If You Want Pokemon Learning, Here It Is! 
2004-01-16
I was never that good at Pokemon, and as soon as I beat a game I put it down and forget about it. The Pokemon R&S Version Guide gave me specific details to where everything was. The strange thing was there are secret places to go and do things, and I found half of them by the time I got the book, and this is before I finished the game! The book laid everything out for me and I use it to help me find more Pokemon, secret places, and if I get stuck. If you need help or want to finish 100%, get the guide!
not enough depth 2003-12-30
though this guide does have a pretty thorough walktrough, it doesn't really have anything else. there's no guide to pokemon evolution or a guide for the moves, and it doesn't say where you can catch certain pokemon, it only has a listing for "notable pokemon," which doesn't even list all the pokemon in the area. I found that this guide isn't much help with the gane, and that I could do the game just as well without it.
Only a walkthrough 
2003-07-05
The only reason to get this guide is for the walkthrough. Sound good huh? What about everything else an RPG, let alone Pokemon guide should have? Nothing on breeding and no Pokedex. Not what I would want from a strategy guide like this.
I've used other guides and while the info in the walkthrough is nice and neat and easy to use (they even give rosters for trainers), the overall work this guide has is a little poor.
There are really no battle tips in this guide, and not only that but the guide seems a bit incomplete. For exacmple, no breeding tips and nothing about the different types. Usually this is something that we'd expect from a Pokemon guide.
My advice is to go to Prima or Nintendo Power. They have a Pokedex at least.
DON'T GET IT 2003-05-10
This book is NOT helpful at all. It doesn't ANY and you have to figure things on your own. All in all, trying to get through the game on your own is better than with this guide. Anyway I had better luck figuring where to go on my own.
