Talk:New Super Mario Bros. Wii/GA1

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Reviewer: ComputerJA (talk · contribs) 06:20, 5 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Review

Hi, I'll be starting a review. Thanks for your work on this article! ComputerJA (talk) 06:20, 5 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

First part

Thanks for the great article. I have very few games for the Wii (SSBB being my favorite one), but reading the article made me want to buy this one! Anyways, I made several corrections as I went along while reading the article. Let me know if you disagree with any of my changes, and please check if I might have done a mistake. Here are some concerns I found:

"players can play up to four players simultaneously" – Sounds a bit redundant with the words play and players three times. Consider revising.

Please go back and cite the [Citation needed] requests (see after sources 22, 24, and 77) and the templates with [By whom?] (after source 31) and [When?] (in the Sales section).

I'm going to have to say this. I don't think citations are necessary for an article's plot section. EditorE (talk) 20:05, 10 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This is the first part of the review. Sometime tomorrow I will review sources one by one and see that all the information is cited. I'll also take a look at close-paraphrasing. Thanks again for your work on this one! ComputerJA (talk) 05:35, 6 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Review Part 2

I thought the article was easily going to pass when I did my first review yesterday. But after reviewing each source, I have my doubts. I could easily quick fail this nomination, considering that there are a lot of unsupported information. However, I think the article has potential. If you guys need more time to work on this, please let me know. I'm willing to negotiate a date. But please address these issues found below--I do not want to fail this article, but I will if I have to. Thanks! ComputerJA (talk) 03:24, 7 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

While New Super Mario Bros. Wii is a 2D platformer, some of the characters and objects are 3D polygonal renderings on 2D backgrounds, resulting in a 2.5D effect (also seen inNew Super Mario Bros.) that visually simulates 3D computer graphics. – I could not find this information in source 1. Source one talks about the characters, but not about the graphics.

If players lose a life and do not have any more lives, they must use a Continue and start all over with 5 lives. – I could not find this in source 9. I did, however, find support for the bubble re-emergence.

If every character in a co-op session enters a bubble at the same time (whether through death or by pressing the A button), they will lose the level and must restart. – I might have missed it but this information is not found on source 10.

Players return to the map screen if they all run out of lives, or if all players lose their lives at the same time, leaving no one to free them … Reaching this goal will open up a new path on the map, leading to new stages on the overworld map and on occasion a warp cannon (which will blast the player off to a later world). – Source 14 does not touch on so many details on the gameplay. Please go back and cite this information with an appropriate source.

During single player mode, losing a life sends the player back to the map screen… Along with the usual Mario series items, like the Mini Mushroom from New Super Mario Bros., new items have been added, including: the Propeller Mushroom, which allows players to fly; the Ice Flower – Is the information backed up with a video? It is currently unavailable, at least on my laptop. The only video I can see is a 00:57 second one that starts with in Peach’s castle and ends with her abduction. Is it that one? If not, maybe you can check YouTube and see if Game Revolution has it in one of its channels. I can let this go as an offline citation, but I think an available video would suit this well.

All levels can be accessed via a map screen, and enemies are often roaming it … location of a secret goal or how to gain infinite 1-ups. – Source 19 does not support all of this information.

At the 2011 E3 convention, a variation of New Super Mario Bros. Wii … – The rest of the information looks fine, but I could not find evidence on source 32 that it happened at that convention.

its sales increased to 1,401,558 in the following week – This is backed up by source 58. I do not think it is a reliable source. Please feel free to disagree and/or change it to a reliable one.

GamesRadar, who also scored the game of 7/10, argued that the game lacked the creativity of others in the series – Which of the three pages is it on source 70?

Final decision

Given the lack of responses after several days and the large of amount of work needed to improve the article, I am going to have to fail this nomination. Please feel free to re-submit it after the issues have been addressed accordingly. When it is ready I might be able to review it again. Thanks and good luck. ComputerJA (talk) 07:27, 11 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]