Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the TFAR nomination of 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 unless you are renominating the article at TFAR. For renominations, please add   to the top of the discussion and   at the bottom, then complete a new TFAR nom underneath.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/November 15, 2014 by BencherliteTalk 23:58, 28 October 2014 (UTC)



Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, known as Metroid Prime 2: Dark Echoes in Japan, is a first-person, action-adventure video game developed by Retro Studios (former headquarters pictured) and published by Nintendo for the GameCube video game console. It is the seventh published game in the Metroid series, a direct sequel to Metroid Prime, and the first game in the series with a multiplayer feature. Echoes was released in North America, Europe, and Australia in 2004, and in Japan the following year. The story follows bounty hunter Samus Aran as she explores Aether, a planet that is infested with the Ing, an evil race from an alternate dimension. Samus must travel to three temples to ensure the destruction of the Ing, while battling Space Pirates and her mysterious doppelgänger called Dark Samus. Retro decided to make the game different from its predecessor by adding more focus on storyline and including new gameplay elements. Echoes' single player mode and graphics were praised by critics, while its steep difficulty level and multiplayer components were met less positively.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Drakengard (October 12, 2014)
 * Main editors: User:Gary King, User:Igordebraga
 * Promoted: 2008
 * Reasons for nomination: This is the 10-year anniversary of the game's release date, November 15, 2004.
 * Support as nominator. Gary  ( talk  ·  scripts )  18:07, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Support,, while you're at it, why dontcha take Metroid (video game) from WP:GA to WP:FA? Good luck, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 19:57, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Support as co-nominator (even put a reminder almost 3 months ago...). And more Metroid FAs would be nice, but making them Good was exhaustive enough. igordebraga ≠ 20:45, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Wow,, I hadn't noticed it was part of a quality topic, congratulations! &mdash; Cirt (talk) 22:51, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Neutral for now - the article's fine, but you may want to discuss this with, who has been planning for a long time to nominate Sega 32X on the 21st, and the Sonic: After the Sequel article is supposedly going to be scheduled for sometime soon. I think an easy solution would just be to temporarily relax the moratorium on close video game articles - it's not our fault if we generate a lot - but that likely won't go well... Tezero (talk) 06:24, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Well, as I put on the WP:TFARP, MP2 might have the "longer time as FA" bonus (since 2008, while the 32X nom was this year). But it's up to to see if he's content with another date, maybe in December. igordebraga ≠ 12:39, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Huh. I thought more recent FAs had the leg up because of their greater guarantee of quality. Tezero (talk) 15:28, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't have an issue with it; let's let the coordinators decide if they'd be willing to run two close to each other - one is hardware while the other is software.  Red Phoenix  let's talk... 02:54, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Support I have no problem wit two similar articles close together on dates on mainpage. anniversary makes this a good choice. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 22:26, 26 October 2014 (UTC)