New Leaf Prima Error Thread

[Fjoora]

I got the Prima guide with my game and I'm pretty upset with it. I'm glad I have a few Japanese guides to recover what the Prima guide is missing (Villager photos among other things). Well, I've looked at the guide all of ten minutes and I've already found an error.

Freya's name is on Fang's row and the name Dobie (of a wolf not brought back) is on Freya's row. I've also seen the guide refer to Kicks as a fox..

Anyway, I made this thread so that we can share the mistakes that we found, and correct them in our own.
I don't really trust the factual information now, because who knows what is wrong!

 

[Punchyleaf]

Not sure if its actually a mistake or if I'm missing something, but one look at the fish index and the "value" of the rarer fish seems a bit.. Off. Like a "Value: 40,000" Arowana? Or a "Value: 5,200" Goldfish?
Some of them seem to be right, but I have to double check first with my Japanese guide

 

[Mr. L]

The value of the fish are correct, but at Re-tail you can only sell your fish (and all other sellable items) for 1/4 of the stated value in the Prima Guide.

 

[Punchyleaf]

._. Then why in the world would they put that instead of the sale price? Or even with it? D: it confused the baheevz out of me when I caught an Arowana the first time and only got 10k instead of the 40k

 

[D i a]

If I recall correctly, there have been a number of people in the past who were unhappy with their Prima guides, due to errors and flawed presentation. I didn't buy a guide for this reason, and frankly the internet is a better guide sometimes. Just my opinion though.

 

[Mr. L]

._. Then why in the world would they put that instead of the sale price? Or even with it? D: it confused the baheevz out of me when I caught an Arowana the first time and only got 10k instead of the 40k

Because that value is designed for if someone would sell it
to you.

 

[Lyla]

I'm glad I didn't give in and buy the guide now. I'll just record things like my villagers fav coffee in my notepad.

So far there are stupid errors and pages missing.. not a good sign.

 

[Punchyleaf]

Thank you for clarifying then, Mr. L

 

[Mr. L]

I'm glad I didn't give in and buy the guide now. I'll just record things like my villagers fav coffee in my notepad.

So far there are stupid errors and pages missing.. not a good sign.

There has been maybe 1-2 errors and ONE book has been misprinted. This guide is still well worth the money.

 

[McMuffinburger]

There has been maybe 1-2 errors and ONE book has been misprinted. This guide is still well worth the money.

Yes out of all the copies of books sold the probability of another misprint is very slim, and in my eyes those errors are not detrimental we all know kicks is a skunk, except the guy who wrote that part lol, it's still worth money in my opinion as a nice guide to have

 

[Fjoora]

Well again, if anyone finds any flaws, please let the community know so that we can make a note :3

 

[Liquefy]

Yes, sadly, I, too, am disappointed with Prima's published guide. I started reading and found the first two errors quickly:

page 16 - The Silver Shovel does NOT give "you a 10 percent greater chance of finding Bells when you smack rocks..." The Silver Shovel gives you chance of receiving gems/ores.

page 18 - The Silver Axe "never breaks." This is not true. The Silver Axe WILL break.

No doubt, there are dozens more.

The guide does have some value (images of items, etc.), but the omissions are disappointing.

 

[SodaDog]

for heaven's sake,

Kapp'n IS A TURTLE/KAPPA! not a frog lol

 

[Wewikk]

Queenie is an ostrage not an octapuss

 

[spamurai]

Wow. I've always been a huge fan of Prima guides, for AC and Zelda etc.
Seems to be an awful lot of errors this time around...

 

[SodaDog]

At least my grandma who goes to japan got me the japanese ones.

 

[Fjoora]

Wow. I've always been a huge fan of Prima guides, for AC and Zelda etc.
Seems to be an awful lot of errors this time around...

There were plenty in the other AC guides.

 

[spamurai]

There were plenty in the other AC guides.

I never noticed 0_o although I only really used the Prima guide for the Gamecube version.

 

[Kaijudomage]

I was tempted to get it when I saw the guide was $12 on Amazon.com, now I'm glad I didn't....

 

[neverbeenkrissed]

usually i get the guides - the funny thing is that the internets are so much more accurate than they used to be, that i would only get the guide as a collector's item. but i haven't even felt the urge yet which i suppose is saying something ...