Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Katana Zero

Katana Zero

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/April 18, 2024  by - Dank (push to talk) 00:43, 18 February 2024 (UTC)



Katana Zero is a 2019 platform game created by the indie developer Justin Stander. The player controls a katana-wielding assassin who can slow down time and predict the future, and must kill all enemies in a level without being hit. The story is told in sequences where the player converses with non-player characters through dialogue trees. Stander began working on Katana Zero in 2013 as his first commercial game. He sought to make a difficult story-driven game that did not force the player to wait through dialogue and cutscenes. Stander worked mostly alone throughout the prolonged development, although he recruited artists to design the visuals and the musicians Bill Kiley and Thijs "LudoWic" Lodewijk to compose the synthwave soundtrack. Devolver Digital published Katana Zero for macOS, Nintendo Switch, and Windows on April 18, 2019. It sold 500,000 copies in less than a year and received positive reviews for its gameplay, visuals, writing, and music. It has been ported to other platforms, and downloadable content is in development.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Most recent video game TFAs were Homeworld on January 19 and Space Invaders on January 26, in addition to The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages being scheduled for February 17.
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 * Promoted: October 26, 2022
 * Reasons for nomination: April 18, 2024, marks the fifth anniversary of the game's release.
 * Support as nominator. JOE BRO 64  17:58, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Joebro, I have no problem with the image you're suggesting, but be aware that some Main Page editors have their own ideas about what's suitable. If the image is pulled, we'll have to look at the image I suggested or some other image. - Dank (push to talk) 17:08, 15 February 2024 (UTC)