Talk:Altered Beast/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Namcokid47 (talk · contribs) 18:20, 13 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Will hopefully get to soon. Namcokid 47 ^(Contribs) 18:20, 13 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Namcokid47: Any idea when we might get to begin this one? Red Phoenix ^talk 21:50, 18 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm so sorry! I entirely forgot about this one. I greatly apologize. I promise to take care of this once I finish up Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere. Namcokid 47 ^(Contribs) 21:51, 18 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, it's cool, man. I've forgotten a few GA reviews I've signed up for before. It happens when you're busy ;) . Red Phoenix ^talk 13:09, 20 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Red Phoenix:: Not a full, detailed review, but I'll leave a few comments for the time being.

Lead

"Altered Beast's arcade release and its various ports have all received mixed reviews." - Same comment I brought up with Hang-On. Why did it get mixed reviews? Gameplay wasn't that good? Graphics were yucky? The general consensus of reviewers should be specified in the lead.
- This one was actually tougher than Hang-On since there's so much mixing, but I gave this a shot. Even the expected criticism of the lack of gameplay had more positive comments than I imagined when I did the research.

Gameplay

The tidbit about the ending can be put into the second paragraph, instead of being on its own.
- Done. I agree, looks better.

Release

I noticed that a lot of stuff in here isn't sourced, specifically the platforms it came out on. Does the Retro Gamer one cover it all?
- It does - the Retro Gamer article is quite thorough, and even includes a section with almost all the ports getting a couple of sentences of description and review (although I thought listing 10 short reviews without scores was just plain ridiculous and undue weight). I don't like to duplicate in-line citations if everything before is covered by that ref, but rest assured I have vetted every line and ensured everything is cited to the next in-line citation.

Reception

A lot of the review scores don't have a source attached to them, which I think is a bit odd. Any chance you're able to fix that?
- I suppose I can - anything that doesn't have a source is because its review is cited in the article prose - a style I had seen in other articles. Unlike the in-line citation duplication, though, I don't see any harm in duplicating the links into the table. I was more or less being lazy; I edit mostly through VisualEditor, and it's a pain in the neck to put references in the Video game reviews template in VE.

I'll provide a more detailed review soon. Namcokid 47 ^(Contribs) 22:58, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

All comments addressed so far. Red Phoenix ^talk 13:09, 20 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Red Phoenix:: I took another look at this article, and I couldn't find much else wrong with it. I think this is ready to be promotion. Great work! Namcokid 47 ^(Contribs) 01:41, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]