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strategy guide; walkthrough book (a printed guide explaining how to clear a video game)
A printed book that explains how to progress through and complete a video game, typically including maps, item lists, enemy data, and step-by-step walkthroughs. Once a major category of gaming publication; with widespread internet access such guides are now more often found online, but printed 攻略本 are still released for major titles.
このゲームの攻略本を買った。
I bought a strategy guide for this game.
攻略本を見ないでクリアしたい。
I want to beat it without looking at a strategy guide.
息子は発売日にゲームと一緒に攻略本まで買ってきた。
On the release day, my son came home with the game and the strategy guide to boot.
Compound of 攻略 ('capturing; conquering; clearing (a game)') and 本 ('book'). The reading of 本 is rendaku'd.
USAGE:
- Informal, conversational word; freely used in everyday speech by gamers of all ages.
- Applies only to printed books; an online walkthrough site is usually called 攻略サイト or 攻略情報, not 攻略本.
- Carries no negative connotation on its own, but some gamers pride themselves on finishing a game 攻略本なしで ('without a guide').
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 攻略本を買う: to buy a strategy guide
- 攻略本を見る: to consult a strategy guide
- 攻略本に頼る: to rely on a strategy guide
- 公式攻略本: official strategy guide
RELATED TERMS:
- 攻略: capture; clearing a game — the base noun; also used as a {する}-verb.
- 攻略サイト: walkthrough website — online equivalent.
- ガイドブック: guidebook — general-purpose guidebook, most often for travel.
- 説明書: instruction manual — comes with the product; describes how to operate it, not how to beat it.