Hello! After spending many hours redoing this thing almost entirely from scratch, I am ready to have this peer-reviewed. This is part of my goal in bringing the entire Xevious video game series up to Good Topic status, as I really like this particular series of games and thought it would be a fun little side project. I'm interested in making this a Featured List, and I've put in a lot of effort to make sure it is the best it can be. Thanks for reviewing. Namcokid47(Contribs)00:14, 27 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Comments Those Japanese references should have the language and trans-title parameters filled in.
Added these for all Japanese-language sources.
Might be worth changing the NA date to a month later to avoid repetition (The eponymous first entry was released for arcades in January 1983 in Japan and in February 1983 in North America by Atari.).
Fixed to avoid repetition.
The use of em dash here (The franchise currently contains twelve games — seven mainline entries and five spin-offs — soundtrack albums, pachinko machines, and an animated feature film produced by Groove Corporation.) should be unspaced per MOS:EMDASH.
Corrected, I need to get better at not doing this.
I could not find a mention of spaceship name of "Solvalou" within the cited source of this sentence (Gameplay in the series consists of controlling a spaceship named the Solvalou throughout a series of levels, shooting at enemies and avoiding their projectiles.)
Just about every source I've seen for Xevious mentions that the player's ship is the Solvalou, so I just assumed this one did too. I noticed that this actually doesn't, so I added the Hardcore Gaming 101 article to verify this fact.
The same can be said for ref #2 with regards to the claim of "cohesive world and storyline" and "It had an influence on game designers such as Satoshi Tajiri and musicians like Haruomi Hosono." (though I could have missed something or they latter quote could already be completely source to #ref 8 which I could not access)
That's because I sourced the wrong HG101 article, Savorelli does say this about Hosono in the final page on the series (for whatever reason I sourced the first page). As for Tajiri, I took that statement from the article on Mendel Palace which mentions how Xevious is his favorite arcade game. There's a Game Center CX episode where he talks more about Xevious and his appreciation for the game, but didn't know how to implement it into the article. If it's necessary, I'll do my best to incorporate it.
For Xevious inspired games such as [...] Thunder Force the cited ref (Nintendo Life) states "This mechanic made the game a very close match to the coin-op hit Xevious, which has led many to surmise that Technosoft was heavily inspired by Namco's influential title." which makes it more speculation than certain fact.
I honestly forgot why I even decided to include that in the article, I guess at the time I just assumed "well Nintendo Life seems to imply that it is, so I guess that means it was inspired by Xevious". That was poor research on my end, so I apologize. Both the mention and ref have been axed.
