Talk:Music of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII

GA Review

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Reviewer: Jaguar (talk · contribs) 18:06, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

Will leave some initial comments within 48 hours. Thanks, ☠ Jaguar ☠ 18:06, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

Note: while @ProtoDrake: wrote this article and nominated it, I've written the majority of the Final Fantasy music articles, including FXIII and Music of XIII-2, so I'll be helping out with the GAN as per his request if he has any trouble addressing your concerns. --PresN 20:15, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

I understand, thanks for telling me. I'll have the review to you by tomorrow morning. ☠ Jaguar ☠ 21:04, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

1. Is it reasonably well written?

   A. Prose is "clear and concise", without copyvios, or spelling and grammar errors:

   B. MoS compliance for lead, layout, words to watch, fiction, and lists:

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:

   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:

Initial comments

Lead

• The opening sentence of the lead makes it sound like it's talking about the game itself, I looked at Music of Final Fantasy XIV as an example and saw that it opened with "The music for the MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV was composed by Nobuo Uematsu..." Why the change?
• "the main soundtrack was performed and recorded in Boston by the Video Game Orchestra, headed by Shota Nakama" - would you prefer the use of conducted? That's if he did conduct it...
• The lead summarises the article well, so this meets the GA criteria

Concept and creation

• "Because of the game's day-night cycle," - would read better as Due to the game's day-night cycle
• "The game also featured multiple musical Easter eggs" - it would be best to link Easter eggs, assuming that some readers wouldn't know what it means in gaming

Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII Original Soundtrack

• "the third covers Yusnaan and important themes" - is Yusnaan a location?
• "It was released by Square Enix under the catalog number SQEX-10392~5" - I notice that this is mentioned in the other section too. Is mentioning the catalogue numbers really notable?

Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII Original Soundtrack Plus

• Any album art? (won't affect GAN)
• "featuring unreleased tracks and rearrangements of classic themes used in the game" - how so? Aren't they remixes?
• "RPGFan's Neal Chandran was mostly negative about the album" - regarding

References

• The references are perfect

On hold

Along with the thousands of other Final Fantasy music GAs, this one shouldn't be hard to pass. The only things currently standing in the way of this one becoming GA are what I mentioned above and those minor copyediting issues. However if they can all be addressed then this one should see no difficulty in passing the GAN. By the way, the album art won't affect the GAN! I'll put this on hold for the standard seven days. ☠ Jaguar ☠ 15:13, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

All dealt with, apart from the catalog numbers, which are present in the other Final Fantasy music articles and seem to be something that's accepted in this kind of article. --ProtoDrake (talk) 15:47, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Close - promoted

As it currently stands the article definitely meets the GA criteria. It is broad, well written and all the references check out, overall a compact article. There's nothing much else to add! Well done on the extra work, this looks like another Final Fantasy music GA! ☠ Jaguar ☠ 17:03, 6 October 2014 (UTC)