Talk:Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: Sabre (talk) 10:58, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap picks up right where Wonder Boy in Monster Land left off -- in fact, the first stage in this game is the same as the last stage in its predecessor.
 * I (hopefully) corrected, and hence struck above, all the above prose issues, switched the wikilink on "life meter", and removed the one review's percentage in the prose (see ).
 * As far as the last sentence in the lead is concerned, that is mentioned in the 2nd-to-last paragraph in the "Reception" section and is referenced from the corresponding IGN source. Because of that, it's normally redundant to use a citation in the lead. If you feel a citation is absolutely necessary (since it is a rather significant claim), I can make that into a direct quotation and cite accordingly if need be.
 * For the "Gameplay" section, I don't think it's unreasonable to verify most of the material in there from primary sources, i.e. the games' manuals, as those are the only places in which you can verify some of the material. Let's face it, secondary sources are not going to completely regurgitate how Gameplay works in their reviews.
 * That one sentence in the Gameplay section, After completing the first level ..., is sourced; it comes from the IGN source at the end of that sentence in the following passage:

I'll work on the remaining stuff sometime later today; it shouldn't be too hard nor take that long to do. –MuZemike 18:49, 16 August 2010 (UTC)


 * I cut a couple of sentences out in the entire Gameplay section and tried to reword some stuff to eliminate some redundancy (see ). –MuZemike 22:37, 16 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Ok, its all looking good, but just a couple of things.


 * Regarding the sentence in the lead, I'm not after a citation. If it was a quote, then yes, it would require one. What I mean is it feels a bit weasely in the wording. The reader may well come along and think "well, who said that? why do I care for their opinion, who are they anyway to make that commment?". My thought was to change the wording from "It has been described as..." to "IGN described it as..." to show who described it as such. Unless, of course, its been referred to as such by other sources.
 * There's still another percentage score in the reception section, its in the sentence after where the first one was.
 * Gameplay section's looking better now. There's still some bits I'm not entirely confident about, but to pursue them would be exceeding what is actually required for a GA review. Its fine now for GA.
 * My fault for missing the reference for the first level business. Sorry about that.
 * -- Sabre (talk) 12:59, 18 August 2010 (UTC)


 * OK, I did miss that one rating, which I removed. I changed the last sentence in the lead to: Reviews from Mean Machines have described Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap as one best games on the Master System, while IGN said it is one of the best 8-bit titles of all time. (see ) –MuZemike 14:01, 18 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Alright, all is good, GA passed. -- Sabre (talk) 14:06, 18 August 2010 (UTC)