Talk:Alien Soldier

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:58, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

~~Also you can slow down the game by pressing pause and i think left or right. Don't remember. It's one of the only games I know that has the option to change the gameplay's speed. ~~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.142.246.93 (talk) 03:20, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Steam

It's on steam now too.--Harizotoh9 (talk) 23:26, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

PS2 Port

Alien Soldier was also ported and re-released as part of the Sega Ages Vol. 25: Gunstar Heroes Treasure Box in Japan for the Playstation 2 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.245.245.69 (talk) 14:14, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Alien Soldier/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Jaguar (talk · contribs) 19:44, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

I still have this game! JAGUAR  19:44, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Initial comments

• "Critics have praised the game's for its graphics" - game
  • Done TarkusAB 21:52, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
• "There are two difficulties in the game, "Supereasy" and "Superhard"" - the names of "supereasy" and "superhard" and mentioned in the source given
  • Done TarkusAB 21:52, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
• " double-jump, hover in the air" - double jump can be linked
  • Done TarkusAB 21:52, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
• "but if its depleted" - if it is
  • Done TarkusAB 21:52, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
• The paragraphs in the Synopsis should be merged into two larger ones, in order to improve prose flow
  • Done TarkusAB 21:52, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
• "who from the start wanted to make nearly the entire game himself" - sounds choppy. Remove "nearly" or replace it with "almost"
  • Done TarkusAB 21:52, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
• "The Mega Drive was known for being better suited for those types of games than its competition" - sounds like original research. I would unlink "its competition", or replace it with the SNES if it's mentioned in the source
  • This is actually mentioned in the source. It doesn't specify competition, and the PC Engine was quite successful in Japan, especially with action games, so that could be implied along with the SNES. Nevermind, this is an annotation in the translation of the original interview. Removed. There is a translation of the source here. TarkusAB 21:52, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
    • Thanks, this should be fine. I was being a bit overcautious... JAGUAR  14:31, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
• How about merging the first paragraph of the release section into the development section and rename that to "Development and release" section? And rename the "Release" section to "Reception", per WP:VG/GL
  • Done TarkusAB 21:52, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
• Split the references into two columns
  • Done TarkusAB 21:52, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
• No dead links
  • Done TarkusAB 21:52, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

This could be GA worthy. I'll leave this on hold for seven days JAGUAR  20:33, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, this is my first GA nomination for a video game, and I hope to do many more! This game is a classic for sure. See my notes above. TarkusAB 21:52, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for addressing them, I've checked through the article again and this looks good to go. I enjoyed this game a lot when I was a kid, and I finished it a few times. Writing articles on video games are good once you have all of the sources, but sometimes it's a pain to find them. I hope you do many more too, this one looks great! JAGUAR  14:31, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for doing this GA review! TarkusAB 14:58, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Sega Saturn magazine:

The march 1995 issue of the Japanese SS mag covers the game interestingly. It has an overview of the game on pages 120-122. It might not sound like much, but those three pages are packed with info, and a half a page is entirely on the plot. Right now much of the plot section is sourced to the game itself. It then has an overview of the mechanics, gameplay, weapons, and enemies. Then on page 128 it has a review of the game. All of this is in Japanese of course. If anyone can read Japanese or can have this translated, it'd be a useful source. Harizotoh9 (talk) 07:35, 8 May 2019 (UTC)

@Harizotoh9: Nice find. The plot and gameplay stuff probably isn't really needed for Wikipedia. Plot details generally don't need sources, and gameplay details like that are too gameguidey. The reviews provide a nice perspective, but I don't have the time to translate them now. This is the first good article I wrote, so maybe I'll come back to it and fix it up some day. TarkusAB^talk 02:09, 21 May 2019 (UTC)