Talk:Clock Tower II: The Struggle Within/GA3

GA Review
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Reviewer: TheJoebro64 (talk · contribs) 12:11, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

I'll take this one up. (I'm also interested because I'm currently writing something about a struggle within.) JOE BRO  64  12:11, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
 * sorry I took a bit long on this, I was out of town yesterday. I'll finish the review tonight. JOE BRO  64  11:34, 23 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Lead
 * "...is a survival horror point-and-click adventure game" strikes me as a bit of a mouthful for the first sentence, and that sea of blue is a bit of an eyesore in my opinion. I'd just pick one genre or the other.
 * Done
 * "...is considered a spin-off in its home country of Japan where it was not a numbered release." Just a clarification question: considered by whom? The developers? Fans?
 * I removed this. Only one source calls it a spinoff, not enough to label it as such imo. But to answer your question, a journalist said it's "considered a spinoff in Japan". So I suppose, by the country as a whole.
 * Also, just a nitpick that isn't really that important: "spinoff" is grammatically correct without the hyphen. It's up to you if you want to keep hyphens or not.
 * Done
 * Otherwise, the lead is well-written and summarizes the article well.


 * Gameplay
 * There's no mention of this being a survival horror game in this section.
 * added
 * Would linking to PlayStation Controller when you mention it be helpful?
 * Done
 * "If playing as Mr. Bates, the player may use obtained weapons against the enemies." What kind of weapons?
 * Pistols and shotguns. added


 * Plot
 * No comments here.


 * Development and release
 * Human Entertainment isn't linked.
 * Done
 * "...it was not a numbered title in Japan and is considered a spin-off." See my comment about this statement in the lead section.
 * Done
 * Neither of the release dates are listed here (or sourced in the infobox).
 * Added release date sources.


 * Reception
 * "Clock Tower II was met with "generally unfavorable" reviews upon release". If my understanding is correct, "upon release" is typically pointless unless there's prerelease reception here as well.
 * Done
 * "...and holds a Metacritic score of 49 out of 100." If the score is already in the review box, then just MC's generalization should suffice (MOS:VG).
 * Done
 * "Human Entertainment used the DualShock's force feedback capabilities to improve the rumble feature during development." This seems like more of a development factoid than a reception one. I would suggest moving this to dev/release and change it to something like "The game supports the rumble feature of PlayStation controllers; Human Entertainment used..." You don't have to do this; it's just something I noticed.
 * Yep, that was there from when there was no dev section. Moved.

Just a few minor quibbles. , I know you've wanted to get this to GA for a while now and I think it's just about there. Nice work. JOE BRO  64  20:41, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks, concerns addressed. I had it on hold for a while because I wanted more development info. There's a little bit I added from a soundtrack booklet but that's all that's out there. TarkusAB talk 12:24, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
 * OK, looks good. Passing. JOE BRO  64  15:30, 24 June 2018 (UTC)