Talk:ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron/GA2
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GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria
- Is it reasonably well written?
- A. Prose quality:
- B. MoS compliance:
- A. Prose quality:
- Is it factually accurate and verifiable?
- A. References to sources:
- B. Citation of reliable sources where necessary:
- C. No original research:
- A. References to sources:
- Is it broad in its coverage?
- A. Major aspects:
- B. Focused:
- A. Major aspects:
- Is it neutral?
- Fair representation without bias:
- Fair representation without bias:
- Is it stable?
- No edit wars, etc:
- No edit wars, etc:
- Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?
- A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales:
- B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions:
- A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales:
- Overall:
- Pass or Fail:
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- Lead
- I still think "selling-out" is simply not formal enough. Would you consider replacing it with something like "The game was criticized for being too sharp a departure from the first game, and some reviewers felt that the developers had been more interested in the publisher's wishes than the fans'."?
- Were you able to determine which regions the game was released in?
- Overview
- Who's Lamont the Funkapotomas? Why are Toejam & Earl concerned with him?
- Toejam "dons" clothes, another tone consideration. "Is dressed in" or "wears" may be better.
- "Capturing Earthlings involves rummaging for them bushes and trees, before pelting the antagonist with "jars" which imprison the Earthling." - I think there needs to be an "in" before "bushes and trees". Also, the object in the sentence is mentioned twice with different names; consider changing the last part to "before pelting the antagonist with jars to imprison them and return them to Earth".
- Development
- The first instance of the first video game (ToeJam & Earl) should be wikilinked.
- Is that all of the information out there for development? A game with that much anticipation would surely have been covered by many publications. You may have to dig through some old print sources.
- Added another source and some more info. Generally though early 1990s sources don't offer much technical development info (being that they were aimed mainly at kids; the prose style also reflects this). These ones are noteworthy because they cover gameplay elements that ended up being ditched. bridies (talk) 06:53, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
- Reception and legacy
- I commend the use of an infobox, but there has to be more reliable reviews out there for both consoles.
- I can't really find any more. There's a Gamepro review available on retromags but it's split into 2 zip files and I can't figure out how to work them. The Mobygames press list quotes from a Gamepro review, presumably that one, but then it's not reliably verifiable. Mobygames also lists an EGM review but that issue doesn't seem to available online. Mega and Mean Machines, the main UK publications, don't seem to have reviewed it and Google news turns up a lot less than it does for the first game. There may be a couple more VC reviews around (the Shacknews one for example) but it's a question of whether to add more rerelease reviews than those covering the original game. bridies (talk) 06:53, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
- I commend the use of an infobox, but there has to be more reliable reviews out there for both consoles.
- External links
This article is on hold until these issues can be addressed. It has made a lot of progress since the first GAN. It will be on hold for one week or until all issues have been fixed. Let me know if you have any questions, and keep up the good work! Vantine84 (talk) 09:21, 28 July 2009 (UTC)