Talk:Super Mario Galaxy/GA3

GA Review

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Reviewer: MWright96 (talk · contribs) 15:09, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

I will review this. MWright96 (talk) 15:09, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars, etc.:

6. It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free content have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

Premise and setting

• Celestial Object, Gravitional force and Wii Message Board are dab links
• Fixed. JAGUAR  18:44, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
• "that provide access to the forty-two galaxies available in the game" - forty-two should be in number form for consistency

• Good catch. JAGUAR  18:44, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Controls

• Ice skating is a dab link

• Fixed. JAGUAR  18:44, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Power-ups and lives

• Health meter and checkpoint are dab links

• Fixed. JAGUAR  18:44, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Plot

• Mushroom Kingdom is linked twice

• Removed. JAGUAR  18:44, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

• Remove the outer space wikilink since its already in the gameplay section

• Removed. JAGUAR  18:44, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Development

• Remove both links to outer space

• Done. JAGUAR  18:46, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

• " life meter to 3 from 8" - spell out 3 and 8

• Done. JAGUAR  18:46, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

• "Miyamoto thought that it was too easy and lacked insensitivity, asserting that a game loses its excitement when it is made too easy." - reptition of too easy

• Rephrased. JAGUAR  18:46, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

• "Shimizu also had a negative reaction to the idea. Shimizu" - usage of "Shimizu" in close proximity

• Fixed. JAGUAR  18:46, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

• "Iwata noted that Mario's Bee Suit was popular with women, and also stated that Mario's other suits were designed to add variations to the gameplay." - the character would be better to avoid reptition

• Done, thanks. JAGUAR  18:46, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Music

• "Yokota almost quit his job," - quit is American style spelling

• Yeah, perhaps. I've used "resigned" instead. JAGUAR  18:49, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

• "in contrast to the tropical sounds of Super Mario Bros.. " - remove the second full stop

• Super Mario Bros. has a full stop in its title, so the full stop after the game is correct. You should have seen the fun I had with Nights into Dreams...! JAGUAR  18:49, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Reception

• " stating that the control schemes more subtle and persuasive as opposed to the "vigorous literalism" of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess." - missing "were"

• Good catch! JAGUAR  18:50, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

References

• Reference 29 is dead

• Wayback Machine couldn't find it, so I had to remove it. JAGUAR  18:57, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

• References 59 and 60 are lacking access dates

• Added. JAGUAR  18:57, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Overall very-well written. Possibly one of your best works. On hold for now. MWright96 (talk) 18:29, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

@MWright96: thanks for the review, and the compliment! I've addressed all of the issues. I might even consider taking this to FA, which I strangely wasn't aiming for. JAGUAR  18:57, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

@Jaguar: Best of luck if you choose the FA route. Promoting to GA class. MWright96 (talk) 19:02, 29 August 2016 (UTC)