Talk:Shin Megami Tensei IV/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: Tezero (talk · contribs) 02:40, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

I'll give this one a shot; I've never actually played a Shin Megami Tensei game other than Persona 4 Arena, and I'd like to learn a little about the series. Tezero (talk) 02:40, 19 November 2014 (UTC)


 * I know I've seen it before, and I'm not necessarily objecting, but is NintendoEverything a reliable source? I have to ask; it doesn't appear at WP:VG/RS.
 * Optional for GA, but Reception could use more elaboration; none of the sources are even given individual treatment or quotes.
 * Why is Nintendo World Report italicized in the prose but not in citations - especially when Game Informer isn't either way?
 * " they can return to the game a variety of ways" - should be "in a variety", and what are some of these ways? Sounds interesting.
 * "the Samurai Flynn" - why is "samurai" capitalized? Does it mean something different in this game from in real life?
 * "In Easy mode" - I'd prefer introducing it more like "The game features an Easy mode, in which..."
 * Again, optional, but I'd like a screenshot that's a little brighter or can otherwise actually show what one of the demons might look like.
 * "reference through recurring" - "reference" as a mass noun is non-standard; please rephrase this sentence

That's about it; I'm not feeling too picky tonight. Ping me when addressed. Tezero (talk) 02:40, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I've done everything you cited, barring the reception section, and decided to delete the NWR reference. The reason I wrote it like that was, when I was reading the reviews, it felt like reading slight variations on the same statements about the game. By that I mean more than usual for reviews of a game that got mostly positive/negative reviews. Where applicable beyond the gameplay, I added differences of opinion, but they didn't seem striking enough to warrant their inclusion. I was using Tales of Symphonia as a template. --ProtoDrake (talk) 06:42, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Fair enough, . As you know, I'm used to working on Sonic games, where critics can't seem to agree on anything other than they don't like what they see, so perhaps I'm out-of-practice with the general uniformity of critical opinion. Reception was only a suggestion, anyway, so I'll be passing this regardless. Nice work. (You didn't answer about NintendoEverything, but I'll leave it be.) Tezero (talk) 06:53, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
 * A little late now, but NintendoEverything seemed to be the only place I found the cited info. --ProtoDrake (talk) 07:05, 19 November 2014 (UTC)