Talk:Rally-X/GA1

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Reviewer: Indrian (talk · contribs) 15:54, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Sure, why not. Indrian (talk) 15:54, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Had a feeling you'd look at this one. This blog post was real helpful with fact-checking the claim that it was seen as the game to outdo Pac-Man (spoilers: it wasn't). Namcokid47 16:11, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Namcokid47 I cannot really find anything to complain about in this article at all. I only have two things for you. First is a garbled sentence in the lead. I usually correct this kind of thing myself, but in this case, I am having trouble figuring out the original intent: "the latter argument is believed to what have attributed to its lack of success originally"

What I was trying to say is that critics believed its innovation is ultimately what made it unsuccessful at the time. Rally-X was released when maze chase games were still new ― Pac-Man wasn't even a year old when this game came out, so in addition to getting used to this kind of genre, you had mechanics like a radar that required lots of multitasking. I tried rewriting it several times, but had a hard time summarizing it while also having it make sense, so I left it out.

Second, the phrase "Namco released a port for the MSX in 1984 that was designed after New Rally-X," creates unnecessary ambiguity. I imagine you mean that the game was based on New Rally-X despite being called just plain old Rally-X, but using "after" here would more traditionally mean that it was designed later than New Rally-X rather than adopting its gameplay.

Clarified that it adopted the gameplay of its sequel despite using the name Rally-X.

I am not even going to bother formally putting this on hold. Just fix these two really minor issues, and I will promote. Indrian (talk) 03:37, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

Indrian: Addressed comments. Thank you for reviewing. Namcokid47 14:59, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

And promoted. Indrian (talk) 19:54, 12 April 2021 (UTC)