Strategy Guide

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Strategy Guide
Book Cover
Official Release Date	Apr 30, 2017
From	Dengeki online
Language	Japanese
Pages	304

Strategy Guide is a second book released after the World Guide book. Its content is arguably the most important lore-wise.

Book print quality is very high.

Novels

Memory Thorn

A story about one of 2B and 9S missions together. Takes place after Memory Cage novel and before the game's events.

Read it here: Memory Thorn

A Much Too Silent Sea

A story about YoRHa android 10H on an underwater facility. Takes place before Route C.

Read it here: A Much Too Silent Sea

Small Flowers

A story about one machine lifeform and a flower. Takes place before the game's events.

Read it here: Small Flowers

Ciphered stories

Story #1

A short story about 9S taking place after Ending A/B.

External Link	Discussion	Author
Full translation		anon
Full translation		/u/RekkaAlexiel

Story #2

A short story about Pods taking place after Ending E.

External Link	Discussion	Author
Full translation		anon
Full translation		/u/RekkaAlexiel

Game Chapters Comments

The book features a lengthy re-telling of each of game's chapter with additional characters thoughts. Everything is also illustrated with in-game screenshots.

 Fun fact: Fun fact: key cutscene screenshots have some of the dialog lines printed in 3 languages: Japanese, French, and English.

External Link	Discussion	Author
Translated Snippets	[Reddit post]	/u/Merutan

Q&A with Yoko Taro

The book has an interview with Yoko Taro answering 50 questions.

External Link	Discussion	Author
Full translation	[Reddit post]	/u/Merutan

Timeline

At the end of the book, there is a timeline of the universe events before and after the game's story.

External Link	Discussion	Author
Full translation	[Reddit post]	anon

Art

art goes here