Wikipedia:Peer review/The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask/archive2

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

Previous peer review - Ian Moody 20:57, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

This article is in the process of becoming a featured article. Are there any edits that should be justified? Is there anything that is missing? —Hollow Wilerding 21:30, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Some more referneces, my dear Hollow. Try and retrieve one for the masks, since I'm sure there will be whiners come nomination time. --DrippingInk 01:43, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks DrippingInk. Any other users have... well, any other suggestions? —Hollow Wilerding 02:17, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

A couple:

"The gameplay for The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask involves the dynamic Fixed 3d environment that appears in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, but is structured differently." Fixed 3D means real-time 3D characters against prerendered backgrounds; Ocarina of Time used it for some in-town scenes, but (according to the Fixed 3D article) Majora's mask didn't use it at all. I think this sentence is trying to say that the two games use the same main graphical engine, basically.
Need a much more explicit discussion of what was the major departure from Zelda gameplay: the @%#%! time limit. Arg! (Me, I play videogames to relax, I don't need a BIG TICKING CLOCK (or giant creepy moon) hanging over my head every second. OK, end of rant.) —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 03:37, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

OK, some more:

The lead mentions that it is "darker" than Ocarina; in fact one of the notable things about Majora's Mask was that it was the darkest of the whole Zelda series, I think. The stylistic aspects that leant this darkness should be discussed.
The "Songs" section belongs on GameFAQs, not here. A mention that various spells are cast by playing the Ocarina should be enough.

—Bunchofgrapes (talk) 03:41, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I have addressed the majority of your comments. Are there any other users who would like to include their input? —Hollow Wilerding 14:42, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Comments (I mistakenly posted these to the archived page, since your comment was added there):

Needs more on development and similarities/differences compared to Ocarina of Time.
The gameplay section is extremely dense and doesn't actually describe the gameplay; it describes assorted details of the gameplay. My impression of the "Masks" and "Transformations" sections is that everything they say combined that is essential could be described adequately in two paragraphs. Worse, there's almost nothing on the three-day time system, which is the most important aspect of MM's gameplay! There should be a separate section that treats it in-depth.
Use more and better images to illustrate key aspects of the gameplay, and show more interesting locations. Write more useful image captions. Take the "Link in his Deku form." image for example -- sure, that is Link in his Deku form... and that is interesting how? "An image of Link's ocarina." is even worse.
Cut the list of songs; this isn't a walkthrough.
Two random quotes don't make a "reviews" section. Further, reviews are not enough; broader influence should be covered as well. Fredrik | t c 21:59, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I believe that there are plenty of relations to Ocarina; this is an article about Majora's Mask, and we don't want to compare everything to its predecessor.
I will cut the descriptions of the songs into a list of the songs Link can learn, and it will look more original.
Three reviews certainly don't make a reviews section. That is why I'm still searching for adequate websites.
The images are supposed to exemplify Link in his many forms — although not even having an image of Link himself is questionable.

Thank you for your comments! Are there any others? —Hollow Wilerding 15:33, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The peer review has been closed; excellent feedback, Wikipedians! —Hollow Wilerding 02:22, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]