Pokemon HeartGold & SoulSilver The Official Pokemon Kanto Guide National Pokedex: Official Strategy Guide (Prima Official Game Guide) Paperback – April 27, 2010

Fantastic guidebook to one of the best Pokémon games ever!!

I can't recommend this guidebook highly enough! It has a detailed pokedex with egg moves, battle point moves available at the battle frontier, TM & HM moves, and more for all 493 pokemon to-date. The walkthrough it good, but even more useful are details on how to get gym leaders and trainer numbers and times to call for guaranteed rematches, and details of which pokemon are used by each gym leader, the elite four and champion, and the final battle with Ash/red along with useful moves and pokemon types to defeat them. It also includes detailed info for different pokewalker routes, which pokemon can be caught at every Kanto location, TM's available at different locations, items held by wild pokemon, abilities and moves lookup and reverse lookup, safari zone details to catch level 50+ rare creatures, bug-catching contest guide and details, a weakness chart for all 493 pokemon... There's more, but these were all my favorite features.Overall, this is a must-have for SouSilver & HeartGold, but be aware that is only covers the Kanto region (the second half of both games). Volume 1 covers the Johto region (the first half of both games). If you are going to just purchase one, though, get this one, as it has the complete pokedex and MUCH MUCH MUCH more detailed and useful information.We have 4 pokemon players in our home, so we have 2 copies of this guide. Yes, it's that useful!

The year is 2000, i had just finished second grade in June. The month is July, and we have just been told there was going to be a new pokemon game. I didn't really care at the time, but when i got Pokemon Silver in 2000 i couldn't have been happier. I got myself the primia guide book originally back then and saw i could travel to Kanto, where the original pokemon took place AND could battle my charter from Red Blue and Yellow. 10 years later I am a senior in high school when i hear they are going to remake gold and silver!!! i was so happy they were my favorite pokemon games as a kid, i liked how it changed from day to night in the games. It took me three years to finally get heartgold. and as like before i had to get a guide to go with it. I was unhappy with how they were both split up but in the end was happy. I couldn't believe how much changed! It then inspired me to fix my original copy of silver....great guide book to explain on the changes with Gold and Silver and how they were similar too!

Pokemon games have generally been released a few every generation. The original games (Red, Blue, and Yellow) for the GameBoy are considered the 1st Generation games; the sequels built for the GB Color(Silver, Gold, and Crystal) are considered 2nd Gen, etc. That makes the DS gen games the 4th Gen PKMN games, and this PokeDex/Guide is built with that in mind. New and/or revised move-sets, Pokemon types, evolutions, natures, etc. are detailed and described as they are in the newer 4th Gen games, that is Pokemon Diamond, Pearl, PLatinum, and the new SoulSilver and HeartGold. In other words, those looking for a complete PokeDex for any other game should look elsewhere. Those interested in the 4th Gen games are in for a real treat.The ultra large (500+ pages) book does exactly what its title says; its a full Kanto guide and a full PokeDex, and it does both, for the most part, extremely well.The Kanto guide contains full and detailed maps (as are seen in-game), tips, and a complete walkthrough. The walkthrough doesn't start just as you enter the Kanto region, however, it assumes you've already beaten the Elite Four and have gained admission to the Hall of Fame. the guide features things like what Pokemon are found in what location, where items are, and dungeon "connections" (doorway "A" leads to this part of the map). The Battle Frontier, tips for the PokeWalker, the Saffari Zone, and a beefy section that details new battle strategies and PKMN teams all help to make this guide stand out from a simple bare-bones walkthropugh. A nice feature i found was a complete list of what event happens at what date, given that SoulSilver/HeartGold rely heavily on a real time clock, this feature is unbelievably important. Another neat feature was a simple recommend route to completing the entirety of your Kanto quest. The Kanto region is much less linear than the Johto region, and this "recommendation" could be very helpful to some.One noticeable and disappointing omission is lack of any "real" info on regular trainers. Gym Leaders have a list of used PKMN as well as tips on how to defeat them, but regular trainer have just a name. The guide doesn't show what PKMN a trainer uses. Its unfortunate and is the only reason why this product gets **** instead of 5*.The PokeDex section includes ALL 493 PKMN, and everyone has a half page devoted to it. Within its space things like possible abilities, moves (learned, TM, Move Maniac, Egg, and Battle Frontier moves all covered), evolutions, info (the same as the in-game PKDX info about the PKMN), egg type, and specially useful for completionists is the location in which you can find the PKMN (and in what 4th Gen game).All pages have an abundance of color and are never boring. Art, images, and tips can be found in EVERY page. The edges of the pages have a mostly solid color (EX, Walkthrough = orange, Dex = Red) that makes quickly opening up the book to a certain section very easy. The same concept is applied to the Dex, where 1st Gen PKMN can be found in the pages with a green hue on the top/bottom. remember that these colors can be seen while the book is closed, so the navigation is the 500+ page book is simple.The product is just about everything any PokeFan could wish for (the only flaw being the skimpy trainer detail), tips, strategies, PKMN info, maps, etc. Its built with a sturdy frame, is large, and the pages are nice and thick. At the very reasonable price, im very easily recommending it.

WHY I BOUGHT POKÉMON ::I got a DS Lite and Pokémon for myself and my kids for the soul purpose of getting something for rainy days and travels that I can do with my kids. It has gone better then I even thought. As silly as it may sound Pokémon has become something fun for my kids and I to talk about and trade and plan together. It creates yet another point of contact forWHY THIS GUIDE IS BETTER THAN THE INTERNET FOR YOUNG READERS ::I play a number of video games and have found that the best resources are not strategy books, but the internet. But this book and the other strategy guides are excellent for my kids. They will sit on the couch together and read together and discuss strategies and greet me at the door when I come home to tell me something new that they learned about a particular pokémon.I highly recommend this strategy guide. It has EVERYTHING a person needs to go deeper into the game.