Talk:Crash of the Titans (Nintendo DS video game)

GA Review

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Reviewer: Bluecrystal004 (talk · contribs) 22:02, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

I'll take a crack at reviewing this, if I haven't posted it in a week please ping me. Bluecrystal004 (talk · contribs) 22:02, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

Stability

• 15 revisions total, essentially a one-person job

Copyright

• Earwig turns up just direct quotes from interviews and reviews, see Gameplay feedback for a small possible issue

Images

Infobox

Lead

• I'd remove the word "titular" but not a big deal

Gameplay

• by purchasing them at a kiosk located in each level. - minor qualm; "them" is kind of ambiguous at first glance, could just make it "by visiting a kiosk..."
• Each island has its own pachinko board where players can win "on-demand items" - could be changed as it's the exact wording used in the Mike Platteter interview, it's not major but preferable
• and set off explosions among other effects. - somewhat awkward end to the sentence

Plot

• raygun is a duplicate link, the only one in the article
• Seems like you get the "bad ending" if you get 100% completion?

Yeah, I know it's weird, but that's what happens. Cat's Tuxedo (talk) 17:59, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

Development and release

• The characters Crunch and Uka Uka, who appear in the console version, are absent from the Nintendo DS version. - I'd suggest moving this above, just before or just after the bit about Wii connectivity
• ...revealed alongside the console version in April 2007. and it was released... - the period after 2007 should be a comma!

Reception

• "Attacks don't really connect with that needed "oomph" to really show you're walloping the enemy with an impressive, powerful strike" - should be paraphrased imo
• the frequent amount of enemies caused the gameplay to become repetitive - "Frequent" or "amount" should be changed to something else, since an amount can't really frequent. "Large amount" or "frequent encounters with" would be better
• "a little cooler and more appealing than his more "Japanese-inspired" edits over the years" - quotes around "Japanese-inspired" should be single quotes
• Tracy Erickson talks about the audio as well, might be worth including his take.

References

• "Crash Mania", as far as I can tell just a fansite, is a pretty tenuous source, but I don't doubt that the interview with Mike Platteter is genuine, so its use for citations in this article seems fine.
• I don't have access to the game's instruction manual, but nothing it was cited for seemed controversial, and I looked up some gameplay which seems to fit the description.
• A pretty short article, so I checked all the citations to sources I had access to; everything checked out.

@Cat's Tuxedo: I think that's everything I had to say. Issues were minor across the board so I'll put this review on hold awaiting fixes. Really good work on this! Bluecrystal004 (talk · contribs) 16:53, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

All points have been addressed. Cat's Tuxedo (talk) 17:59, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

Everything looks good now, passing. Thanks for your quality work on this! Bluecrystal004 (talk · contribs) 19:03, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

Comments from Lankyant

Hope you don't mind me jumping in here!

The Metacritic reference is dead and needs the url status changing to dead. I also did some googling and found a Metacritic for PS2 version but it's dead. If you can find an archive for it might be good to add it.

Url: https://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-2/crash-of-the-titans

Lankyant (talk) 17:47, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

I don't believe they're dead, are you possibly confusing the 500 error the site is currently encountering for a dead link? I'm 75% sure I just checked the Metacritic source earlier today. Bluecrystal004 (talk · contribs) 18:53, 21 September 2022 (UTC)