# Talk:Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin

This is in response to the request at WP:VG/A.  I'm nominating this article for A-class, which by convention requires a second assessor to agree.  The only quibble I have is the bulleted list in the merchandise section, which I think should be made into prose, but that's a small thing.  --PresN (talk) 06:19, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Some things I think need to be done before A-class can be achieved:
The lead section needs some qualification that identifies the game as handheld for those who are not familiar with the "Nintendo DS" platform. This is necessary to understand the rest of the article.
Some minor jargon: "combo attacks", "viewable", etc. I just wrote a section in WP:VG/GL on jargon because of this, might be good to check.
The 'Alternate modes' section is incomprehensible when read quickly. The structure of the section is at fault here, because the first and last sentence of each paragraph are not the 'key sentences', but rather introduce details. A minor remark, but would need fixing for Featured Article status.
The screenshots in the article do not seem particularly representative. In this page, listed as source on one of the images, there are several better ones available.
I agree with PresN on the merchandise list. It's not a big deal, but prepare to be shot down for it in a FAC.
Some of the preview stuff in the external links should be removed, as it's no longer relevant.
Finally, I laughed at the input method "buttons", but perhaps it should be changed? Or lets make a bot to add "buttons" to all video game articles XD
User:Krator (t c) 14:45, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

The Castlevania navigation box at the bottom of the page appears broken in FireFox 3 and IE 6.  The same NavBox appears to work correctly on other pages.  In the source that my web browsers see, the "{{NavBox" token apparently isn't being pre-processed out.  The bulk of links are still present, but it appears as word salad without the formatting a NavBox is supposed to have. --DLWormwood (talk) 16:29, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

I don't see this problem. Pagrashtak 17:26, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

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The dev section is small and needs expansion. There's the Play Interview with Iga and Yamane. There's also the JP guidebook, and most of them have interviews with the dev team. I don't have access to this guidebook though. Harizotoh9 (talk) 22:05, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

This article hasn't been assessed for GA article status since 2008. Having expanded and the standards for GA having risen since then, I feel that the time is right for this article to be assessed to see if this article still meets the criteria. In the meantime, here are some things that I have noted so far.

The lead has no information on the game's development despite there being ample enough info to include.
The lead doesn't do a good job at illustrating the gameplay and plot.
Gameplay section is seemingly very messy -
It goes into seemingly too much detail about the game's enemies.
On top of that, it mentions the games endings in too much detail for something that should probably be reserved for the plot section.
The "Alternate Modes" and "Nintendo Wi-Fi" subsections aren't necessary as their contents can seemingly be shortened and added to the main section with no real issue.
Alternate Modes subsection has a majority of it in bullet points. Need I say more.
The plot section is too long and somewhat messy in writing in places.
The development section is decently well written, but there is a citation needed symbol and the Audio subsection feels sort of iffy to me.
Reception section might need to be rewritten. Definitely work in or remove the final line of the section though as it doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the text in the section.
Some References, such as the Brady Games strategy guide, seem unfit for this article. Also, one of the sources isn't formatted properly.
Any additional comments are very much encouraged and appreciated. Pinging some of this article's previous major contributors Guyinblack25, Harizotoh9 and Abryn COOPER COOL 23 user page 19:14, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

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