There is simply no better feeling than when you finally figure out the solution do a difficult puzzle all by yourself without any help! The best games understand this and go a step further to ensure that the puzzle is fun even while you're TRYING to solve it. I like games to be intuitive enough that guidebooks aren't necessary.
That having been said, I think guidebooks are okay if you want to find out all that is available in a game! The Legand of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on the N64 was difficult but not so difficult I couldn't finish the game without help. But it WAS pretty cool to open up a guidebook and be able to find the depths of goodies the designers hid throughout the game. There were dozens of items I wouldn't have found in a thousand years without SOME kind of guidance. Looking at the guidebook after playing through the game a couple of times just made the game that much more fun...for me!
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