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Reviewer: ProtoDrake (talk · contribs) 14:50, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
Looking this over, I think it's not suited to be a GAN, let alone a GA. It's severely lacking in citations. Here's a general rundown of points that really stood out to me.
- Entire Gameplay and Setting sections entirely uncited, which even for GAs is important.
- Games table has just one citation.
- The sections covering each mainline game just seem to focus on plot over other elements, and it's generally uncited (important with which studios ported them)
- The spin-offs is very spottily references,
- Compilations bit's not as bad as the rest.
- Development's not as bad, but still looks as if it was cobbled together. Especially since it doesn't cover the history of the series as a whole, but seems to just cover the first game with just mentions of the others.
- Small point comparatively, but it stood out. Third paragraph covering Andromeda's lack of morality choices; A, is this important to development? And B, it's uncited.
- I don't see the point of the Cultural influences section, seems like something to naturally incorporate into other sections such as Plot.
- Music section has minimal actual information from the composers/developers, relying on list articles after Hall's bits.
- The Adaptations section could easily be condensed into a few paragraphs of text, since its current list style is just unwieldy to navigate and read. And again, some bits are uncited, and further some bits are overcited.
- Reception is lacking in talking about the games, and there's way too much information on sales for a franchise reception section.
- Legacy and cultural impact, again not as bad as most of the rest of this article, but it's structured in a way that feels more like a jumble of reception and bits from other sections.
@Lankyant: I'm sorry, but this article's an Instant Fail. Even if I were to put it on hold, there's so much here that it'd be far beyond the scope of GAN edits to fix. If you want to improve this article for another nomination, then perhaps look at other GA/FA articles (Final Fantasy, God of War, Myst, Broken Sword) --ProtoDrake (talk) 14:50, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
- @ProtoDrake Thanks for looking, I wanted to get some direction on how to improve and that's perfect! Thanks Lankyant (talk) 15:00, 14 November 2022 (UTC)