Talk:Crash of the Titans (Nintendo DS video game)

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Review: September 21, 2022. (Reviewed version).

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Reviewer: Bluecrystal004 (talk · contribs) 22:02, 19 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'll take a crack at reviewing this, if I haven't posted it in a week please ping me. Bluecrystal004 (talk · contribs) 22:02, 19 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Stability

15 revisions total, essentially a one-person job

Copyright

Earwig turns up just direct quotes from interviews and reviews, see Gameplay feedback for a small possible issue

Images

Infobox

Lead

I'd remove the word "titular" but not a big deal

Gameplay

by purchasing them at a kiosk located in each level. - minor qualm; "them" is kind of ambiguous at first glance, could just make it "by visiting a kiosk..."
Each island has its own pachinko board where players can win "on-demand items" - could be changed as it's the exact wording used in the Mike Platteter interview, it's not major but preferable
and set off explosions among other effects. - somewhat awkward end to the sentence

Plot

raygun is a duplicate link, the only one in the article
Seems like you get the "bad ending" if you get 100% completion?

Yeah, I know it's weird, but that's what happens. Cat's Tuxedo (talk) 17:59, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Development and release

The characters Crunch and Uka Uka, who appear in the console version, are absent from the Nintendo DS version. - I'd suggest moving this above, just before or just after the bit about Wii connectivity
...revealed alongside the console version in April 2007. and it was released... - the period after 2007 should be a comma!

Reception

"Attacks don't really connect with that needed "oomph" to really show you're walloping the enemy with an impressive, powerful strike" - should be paraphrased imo
the frequent amount of enemies caused the gameplay to become repetitive - "Frequent" or "amount" should be changed to something else, since an amount can't really frequent. "Large amount" or "frequent encounters with" would be better
"a little cooler and more appealing than his more "Japanese-inspired" edits over the years" - quotes around "Japanese-inspired" should be single quotes
Tracy Erickson talks about the audio as well, might be worth including his take.

References

"Crash Mania", as far as I can tell just a fansite, is a pretty tenuous source, but I don't doubt that the interview with Mike Platteter is genuine, so its use for citations in this article seems fine.
I don't have access to the game's instruction manual, but nothing it was cited for seemed controversial, and I looked up some gameplay which seems to fit the description.
A pretty short article, so I checked all the citations to sources I had access to; everything checked out.

@Cat's Tuxedo: I think that's everything I had to say. Issues were minor across the board so I'll put this review on hold awaiting fixes. Really good work on this! Bluecrystal004 (talk · contribs) 16:53, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

All points have been addressed. Cat's Tuxedo (talk) 17:59, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Everything looks good now, passing. Thanks for your quality work on this! Bluecrystal004 (talk · contribs) 19:03, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Lankyant

Hope you don't mind me jumping in here!

The Metacritic reference is dead and needs the url status changing to dead. I also did some googling and found a Metacritic for PS2 version but it's dead. If you can find an archive for it might be good to add it.

Url: https://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-2/crash-of-the-titans

Lankyant (talk) 17:47, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I don't believe they're dead, are you possibly confusing the 500 error the site is currently encountering for a dead link? I'm 75% sure I just checked the Metacritic source earlier today. Bluecrystal004 (talk · contribs) 18:53, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]