Talk:Xenoblade Chronicles (video game)/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: AdrianGamer (talk · contribs) 09:40, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

• The game features navigation through an open world - wikilink open world
• are in a perpetual war with the Machina machine race of Mechonis. - wikilink perpetual war
• Announced at E3 2009 may not be significantly enough to be mentioned in the lead. Simply trim it to "The game was announced in 2009 under its original title"
• A spiritual successor by the same development for the Wii U - by the same development "team"
• with the time of day often affecting in-game events, quests, enemy strengths, and item availability. - Any examples how time of day affect events?
• rather than relying on save points - not really necessary in my opinion
• which generally allows the player to visit whatever can be seen in the horizon. - "allow"
• One strong point these quests possess is automatic completion - strong point sounds like point of view.
• in-game characters of its completion - "their"
• an entire chart is completed - What chart? The article never mentioned any chart before. Does it refer to the "Collectopedia"?
• which grants the player to participate in a multifaceted "Gem Crafting" mini-game - Can be rephrased to "which give the player access to a multifaceted "Gem Crafting" mini-game"
• The game also has extensive customization - Can be rephrased to "The game also has an extensive customization system."
• Player or the player. Choose one
• finite amount of health points - You should add a remark, telling readers that its abbreviation is "HP"
• which allows the characters to grow stronger by leveling up and learning new Arts. - "allow"
• successfully land hits on the enemy players - What are "enemy players"?
• using Artes with special effects, and avoiding or dealing critical hits. - "Arts"
• Where do these colonies come from? The setting section doesn't seem to explain that well. It simply says "colony" but does not say anything about how they get divided etc. This is optional. You can ignore this if sources do not cover this.
• brought in to work on the game systems - which system?
• When Xenoblade Chronicles began development - Should be written in passive voice
• The decision not to transition between the environment and a battle arena was chosen by Takahashi as he felt such a transition would negatively interrupt the flow of gameplay. - I don't understand this. Does this still refer to the turn-based system or something separate?
• The game utilizes a fully open world - Rephrase it to "The game features a fully open world"
• which entailed the creating of a huge amount of content such as items and accessories - "creation"
• Takahashi wanted him to speak. - Is there a reason?
• bug fixes, minor adjustments to gameplay balance - wikilink "bug"
• The New 3DS' increased power made the port possible, and its button layout meant that the original Wii Classic Controller button layout - incomplete sentence
• To maintain framerate and the seamless transitions between environments, multiple technical tricks were used. - "frame rate". What technical tricks did they actually used

• That was a very well-written development/ release section. Well done
• seen as a great improvement for the genre - Does critics mention in what ways they are improved?
• I expect a much longer reception section, but its current length is acceptable

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Overall it is a well-written article, supported by lots of reliable sources. When all the minor problems raised above are addressed the article should be good to go. AdrianGamer (talk) 03:47, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

@AdrianGamer: I've addressed everything I could. And as to the points I could not easily settle: the Colonies did not have specifics surrounding them, there was nothing further about the reasons for Shulk being given a voice, they did not say what technical tricks were used, and looking through the reviews was like standing in an echo chamber so I couldn't make that section very large. Something I must say: kudos to Sergecross73 for doing a sizable amount of work on this article before I came here, which provided a wonderful base from which to work. --ProtoDrake (talk) 11:23, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

With all the issues fixed, Xenoblade Chronicles is now a . Congratulations to both of you! AdrianGamer (talk) 11:33, 28 December 2015 (UTC)