This guide really is great. If you are having trouble with Kingdom Hearts, you'll definitely want this guide. It tells you everything you need to know, from the basics, to the worlds, to the secret bosses. Everything is explained throughly and the maps and screenshots are great followers. Plus, the biographies for each character are cool to read and the pictures of the characters are so pretty to look at! The only problem with this guide is that it's a major spoiler for the game. The game is supposed to be a surprise every time you go to a new world or seal one of them. See, each of the worlds is supposed to be nothing like the last except for the fact that they're all Disney Worlds. When reading the player's guide, I always knew what was going to happen, and that's not very fun! If you like spoilers, read ahead in the guide. If you like surprises, don't read ahead unless you're extremely stuck. 'Cause without the player's guide, it's true: You never know who you'll run into next.

This guide was awesome and of great help to me! You can't get any better than this right now. The BradyGAMES Signature series continues with Kingdom Hearts. This guide is jampacked with detail after detail, maps upon maps, and boss stategies upon boss strategies of help!

However, there is at least ONE spoiler in the guide (the only spoiler actually) that you may want to wait and it just so happens to be in the last few pages (in other words the final boss), so take your time with this one and use as you go through the game and don't be like me and read the whole walkthrough before you even start!

BUT the guide has so much to offer. Fully detailed map that pin-point the location of items and trinitys. Boss tatics that will actually lead you to victory against some of he toughest bosses in the game with NO plot spoilers whatsoever (and thats a good thing cuz this storyline was absolutely breathtaking)!

Tips on how to customize your characters and list of abilities! Side quest and optional bosses revealed, including Sephiroth! Comeplete coverage and tips on how to build the perfect gummi ship! Stats on each blue print.

Character profiles identify who's with you and who's not, who is the best in battle, and who...[isnt] Complete bestiary with complete stats on all the enemies in the game!

Detailed items and synthesis list and complete list of weapons to let you know what's best for your characters.

A free poster is included to help you find all 99 Dalmations and all the trinitys. This is THE guide for Kingdom Hearts, the complete game is covered and they tried so hard to satisfy us (it worked on me) by actually taking things into account this time. This is the best guide out there.

OVERALL
Positive
+Great in-depth walkthrough
+Free poster
+All side quest covered
+Boss strategies that just blow us away
+Complete Bestiary

Negative
-Get to the point BradyGAMES! Waste too much time
-Maps are handrawn (still detailed)

This guide is filled with all the things a good strategy guide must have: clear maps, practical strategies, helpful tips and comprehensive item/accessory listings. You get the complete bestiary, complete with weaknesses, locations and pictures. This is particularly helpful if you need particular items from particular enemies for item synthesis (all of which, both enemies and their respective items, are meticulously detailed in this guide in a clear layout). You get walkthroughs of every world, every step of the way -- and if you've played this game, with the expansive worlds it features, you know this is absolutely necessary. It would have taken me at least three times as long to navigate through Atlantica (the Little Mermaid stage) without this guide, but thanks to its clear delivery and direction, I whizzed through it. You get strategies for all bosses and hidden bosses that actually work -- including warnings of special attacks and effects (i.e. - the tips for the Ice Titan keep you from getting frozen to death by his giant freezing attacks). In short, this guide does exactly what a good strategy guide is supposed to do -- it helps in every area of the game from walkthroughs to navigational difficulties, and reveals all hidden possbilities. If you want to master this game, or if you're having the slightest trouble getting through it, this guide will make sure you're an expert in no time.

I too found that the reviewer's comment on these Mutual shorts being "uninspired" and "unfunny" were extremely ill thought out. I've seen the Mutual films before, and just recently purchased the DVDs and enjoyed them all over again. (the quality of the prints are very good!) The Immigrant is a great example of his mastery of the pantomime (the restaurant scene is just plain charming) and in Easy Street, well, I can't find how someone could call it "crude". And what's funny about a Chaplin's getting people drunk in a rehab center? If you knew anything about history, this was a direct smack at the upper classes since alcoholism was a huge problem with the working class during this time. Charlie was poking fun at the upper crust: and to the working people that is ALWAYS funny.

There is nothing at all "uninspired" about Charlie's work in these four shorts. Especially since, in 1917, Charlie was creating the template for comedy that comedians would imitate for decades--Nearly one-hundred years on, people are still using many of the techniques debuted here for the first time by Chaplin (along with the National shorts). It is interesting that the "basher" (as I've called this reviewer) mentioned the revolving door sequence in The Cure to be maddening: to a modern audience, that gag can appear recycled-but that is only because countless comedians have copied what Chaplin created for the FIRST TIME here.

Now, I'm a huge fan of Lloyd and **especially** the inimitable Buster Keaton, but the earlier comment that "Until the late 20's, any Keaton, Lloyd, or Langdon film was infinitely better than the stuff that Chaplin turned out at the time" is really, quite frankly, silly. Keaton didn't even begin to appear in shorts until the very year of these Mutual films and here was Chaplin writing, directing and acting on his own!! Not to mention that, within two years, he would help to form (along with Mary Pickford and Doug Fairbanks) a little something called United Artists which was a huge step forward for filmmakers and is still a force in the Industry. And by the way, in 1921 Chaplin released his feature length, The Kid, which is widely acclaimed as one of the best films of the silent era and it also proved for the first time that a comedy could be funny as well as touching to the heart. (I don't know anyone who can watch the final scene of the Kid without getting a tug at the heart). That same year of 1921, Keaton released his first feature film, The Saphead.

Enough said.

I'm not bashing Keaton because he is an unbelievable genius (Sherlock Jr. is one of my favorite films of all time! =o) but I just think that one should give credit where credit is due. And every single comedian coming after Chaplin **including Keaton, Lloyd and Langdon**--right down to this day--is reminded to tip their derby to Charlie.

He isn't called a genius just for the hell of it, you know.

(Anyway, four stars to this charming collection of Chaplin full-speed ahead on his way to becoming a legend.)

Chaplin is one of its kind. It is great to be able to watch his creations in the original speed and without all the scratches. They have done a tremendous restauration job on these films: you can hardly believe they are almost a century old! Now you will be able to see Chaplin's mutuals they way he intended them. Real masterspieces of art! You won't be disappointed.

These are the last four of Charles Chaplin's twelve two-reelers for Mutual, and they are all top Chaplin entertainment. Made in 1916-17, they demonstrate Chaplin at his most inventive and funniest. The films are all about 25 mins long. Visually, this DVD is an excellent transfer, and it has newly scored music which fits quite well. Recommended to all fans of silent comedy, or generally all people who could need a good laugh. And besides, noone can impersonate a floor lamp like Chaplin could...