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Persona (series)[edit]

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I've listed this article for peer review because… I feel that it can be brought up to Featured Article standards, but I need some advice and tips from other editors on how to improve it before it is brought up for FA review. I am fully expecting faults in the grammar and such, but I would also like any other faults that are seen with the references or the usage of images to be pointed out so I may either address the problem or explain it in some way. --ProtoDrake (talk) 18:42, 22 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, ProtoDrake (talk) 18:42, 22 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, seeing how this has been up for almost a month with no responses, I guess I'll take a look at this. Never done any reviews on Wikipedia, but since there's kind of a backlog of GAN, FAN, and Reviews for Video game articles, I guess I'll try and thin out as much as I can. I'll have some comments by tonight. Famous Hobo (talk) 21:49, 18 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, here we go. First off, just a few nitpicks regarding the intro:

Other third-party companies such as Ghostlight and NIS America have published titles in Europe. - Maybe include this information as a footnote, kind of like what Grand Theft Auto V does for the developer section of it's infobox. While it is important, I don't think it necessarily needs its own sentence.

The series is a spin-off from the developer's Megami Tensei franchise. - Which developer? I'm assuming your'e talking about Atlus.

The first entry in the series, Revelations: Persona (released in Japan as Megami Ibunroku Persona), was released in 1996, and since then there have been seven further entries... - Replacing the and with a period sounds better.

The series began life as a spin-off... - Life isn't needed.

...and combat utilizing Personas. - Does Personas need to be capitalized?

In the third paragraph, any mention of the word west should be capitalized.

...beginning with Persona 2, the localizations have been notably faithful... - Which Persona 2?

Since the release of Persona,... - Persona should be changed to Revelations: Persona as it was already written as it's full name in the same paragraph.

Specific entries have earned both praise and controversy over their content and themes. - This caught my attention, as I wasn't aware that the series had received controversy. However, you might want to expand upon it a bit more, as simply citing the content and themes isn't enough. I skimmed through the article and saw that the series was controversial for stuff like Nazism and religious stuff. Maybe make a short mention of that.

Looking over my comments, it's pretty clear most were small nitpicks at best. Since I normally don't do peer reviews, some of my comments might sound useless and trivial. If that's the case, please say so.

The intro is very well written, and does a nice job of summarizing the whole article. If the main content is written like the intro, the I'm very excited to read the rest of the article, though I probably won't be able to get much done tonight in terms of comments, kind of want to work on getting this bad boy up for GAN. I'll have more comments tomorrow. Famous Hobo (talk) 06:19, 19 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Titles:

For main titles, it looks kind of empty. There's no mention of the gameplay or plot for any of the games. I know the gameplay is mentioned later in common elements, but I like what Kingdom Hearts does for it's main titles, so maybe something like that.

while a spin-off featuring the casts of Persona 3 and 4, it is classed by Atlus as an official entry in the Persona canon. - Worded awkwardly.

...a 3D dungeon crawler set within the environments of Persona. - Add a wikilink for Dungeon crawler, as most non gamers don't know what that is.

Sorry for not being able to do more, just got home a little bit ago, and I'm beat as hell. I really need to stop making unnecessary deadlines for myself. Anyway, looks great. I'm sure that after some small edits, this will be FA ready in no time. Famous Hobo (talk) 07:24, 20 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]