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GA Review
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- This review is transcluded from Talk:Squabble (video game)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.
Reviewer: A412 (talk · contribs) 21:45, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
I'll take a look at this. ~ A412 talk! 21:45, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
Unfortunately I think this is going to have to be a WP:QUICKFAIL, as it's a long way from meeting some of the GA criteria.
- The elephant in the room is that the article is short. Primarily, this leads to issues with 3a (broadness), as some expected article elements are not discussed at all. I recognize the sourcing may not be there for some elements, but the result is an incomplete article.
- I also have concerns, though more addressable ones, about 2c (OR), primarily in the reception section, 1b (MOS), primarily in the guidelines on lead sections, and 6b (images). ~ A412 talk! 20:37, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
References
As of this revision.
Spotcheck
There are few enough refs that I'm just going to check all of them.
- [1] -
CNET's Mark Serrels described the gameplay as possibly causing one to have a mental breakdown
- I get what you're quoting, but having this as prose and not a quote, and linking to mental breakdown, makes it look like it's making a medical claim, when it's clearly just an exaggeration from the author from reading the source.I recommend playing it at least once
- I don't think "recommended the game" and "recommend playing it at least once" are quite equivalent here. - [2] -
Upon release, several journalists noted the game's frantic gameplay
Given that none of [1], [2], or [4] use the term "frantic", and I can't cleanly determine what you're citing in each source here, I think this needs to be expanded as to what each publication wrote that could be summarized as "frantic". - [3] - Checks out.
- [4] -
PC Gamer's Christopher Livingston was more critical of the game
- I think this statement is a bit synth-y, as I think that while the source makes the claim that Squabble is more frantic than Wordle, I don't quite think it's appropriate to describe it as critical, absent a statement to that effect or some comparable / numeric scoring. - [5] - Checks out.
- [6] - Checks out.
- [7] - Checks out.
RS
- Checks out.
CV
- Checks out.
OR
- See concerns about verifiability and synth from the spotcheck.
Broadness / Focus
- This article isn't very broad.
- There's little contextual information. There's no development information (who is Ottomated? Is it a person or a studio?). There's minimal release information ("it was announced on Twitter" is the extent, currently). Did anything ever happen outside of it getting released in February 2022?
- The reception section has been summarized to the point of being hard to verify where the information is sourced from, and not giving a reader a good sense of the reception of the game.
Lead
- I know some authors like doing this, but
web-based battle royale word game
is a sea of blue. a word game created by Josh Wardle on The New York Times
- this is only in the lead, uncited, and a bit misleading (It implies that Wardle created the game on NYT, when I'm pretty sure it was acquired).and battle royale mechanics seen in games such as Fortnite: Battle Royale
- Also only in the lead.Squabble received a positive reception from journalists, who focused primarily on the fast paced gameplay.
- Absent some review aggregator, it's generally synth to label reception as "positive".
Gameplay
There are two modes in Squabble: Blitz and Squabble Royale. In Blitz, 2 to 5 players compete, while in Squabble Royale, there are 6 to 99 players
- Bit redundant, I would combine asThere are two modes in Squabble: Blitz, where 2 to 5 players compete, and Squabble Royale, with 6 to 99 players.
Each player has a health bar decreasing by one health point (HP) every second.
- It's not particularly useful to know players lose 1 HP/s without knowing a total. We should add that information if its sourceable, and remove the specific number on the rate of loss otherwise.To restore health, players must consecutively solve Wordle puzzles by guessing a five-letter word within six tries. Additionally, when a letter within a word is correct, an opponent gets damaged
- Is it more natural (doesn't break up the discussion of the effects of scoring) to sayPlayers must consecutively solve Wordle puzzles by guessing a five-letter word within six tries. When they guess letters correctly, an opponent gets damaged and the player's health is restored.
?others grids
->others' grids
orother players' grids
one
->the player
Release and reception
The release of the game was announced on their Twitter on February 2, 2022
- Clarify if the game was released on this date, or just announced.Blaine Polhamus of Dot Esports wrote the game to be
- Unless Polhamus wrote Squabble, I think the wording should beBlaine Polhamus of Dot Esports wrote that the game was
.
Images
- Infobox image is fine.
- We should be able to get a NFCC-compatible gameplay image.
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