Talk:MUSHA

GA Review

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Reviewer: Freikorp (talk · contribs) 11:30, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

1. Is it reasonably well written?

   "An entry in the Aleste series" - a very brief description of this series in the lead wouldn't go astray

   Done

   The working title could not have been "Aleste 2" since there was already a game named "Aleste 2" for MSX2 (and made by the same team).Colpocorto (talk) 18:52, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

   "In retrospect, MUSHA has garnered much higher praise" - this needs further clarification; specify around what year the positive reviews started.

   Done

   "The team lost interest early on so redirected the game to feature a Japanese aesthetic and a speed metal soundtrack." - this doesn't appear to be backed up by the body (which says nothing about "losing interest"), or rather, the points in body could be summarised better.

   You are correct, the body doesn't say they lost interest, fixed.

   "and the west in 2009" - In the west is a bit vague; do you know where exactly it was made available in the west? I'm not familiar with the Virtual Console but I'm assuming anybody in any country could download the game through it. Would it therefore be more accurate to say it was released in English? Or "outside of Japan"?

   "the west" refers to the western world. Your assumption is incorrect, Nintendo runs different Virtual Console store fronts in each region. It was released on the Japanese VC first, then the North American and PAL VCs the next year. I think "the west" is the most accurate way to convey this, I linked western world too to make more clear. If you think "outside Japan" is better I'm OK with that too.

   "but are called options" - I'm confused by this, are you saying "options" is the name of the drones?

   Yea, the drones are literally called "options". Weird name. I replaced "options" with "drones" because the name really isn't important.

   "Sakoda only had four channels" - I don't know anything about composing music; what is a channel? Is there an appropriate wikilink for this?

   A channel is an audio track. When composing music for old games, composers used sound channels, one for each instrument. Perhaps a flute sound would be one channel, a bass drum would be another, a guitar would be another, etc.. The channels are composed individually then "stacked" atop each other to build a full song. Naturally, more sound channels means deeper, richer music. He could only use four channels with each song so he had to get creative to make the music sound whole and full. I linked multitrack recording, it seemed to be the closest.

   Why only 4 channels? The Megadrive has 6 FM channel + 3/noise PSG channels. Sakoda stated on his Facebook account that he composed all the musics using the BASIC MML on his Sony MSX2+ (since he reused the workflow previously set up for Aleste 2). The MSX2+ uses a 6 channel FM chip (plus separate channels for drums).Colpocorto (talk) 18:52, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

2. Is it factually accurate and verifiable?

   A. Has an appropriate reference section:

   B. Citation to reliable sources where necessary:

   C. No original research:

3. Is it broad in its coverage?

   A. Major aspects:

   There's nothing about the original release date in the prose, yet you have two sources in the infobox. The article needs either a "Release" subsection or for "release" to be merged in elsewhere, such as "Development and release".

   The sources only mention the dates of the release and nothing else. No month for the NA release. I added a release section but it's pretty bare.

   Could you find any information about how many copies were sold? For either the original release or the 2009 re-release?

   Nope.

   B. Focused:

4. Is it neutral?

   Fair representation without bias:

5. Is it stable?

   No edit wars, etc:

6. Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?

   A. Images are tagged with their copyright status, and valid fair use rationales are provided for non-free content:

   B. Images are provided if possible and are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions:

7. Overall:

   Pass or Fail: Placing on hold until issues are addressed. Freikorp (talk) 11:57, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

   @Freikorp: Responded.

   @TarkusAB: Thanks for your responses and clarifications. I'm happy for this to pass now. P.S Just for future reference I don't think the ping function works unless you put your signature in the same edit as the ping. :) Freikorp (talk) 23:15, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

Cover art

@Aspects: The JPG should be used here. While I understand that JPG is compressed, it is officially distributed, so we know the colors, contrast, cropping, etc are "correct". The PNG is an unofficial scan of the cover, as can be ascertained from examining the right of the black bar at the bottom of the cover. Since there is no true PNG version, the official JPG is preferred. Does that make sense? TarkusAB^talk/contrib 22:45, 20 October 2021 (UTC)