I recently made a massive edit to the page and wanted to use this space to explain everything I changed at length:
Altered the page quote to feature the entire opening monologue (including its original formatting — I admit this wasn't strictly necessary but I like how it looks)
Heavily adjusted the description to fix run-on sentences & missing/otherwise improper punctuation
Also removed mentions of critical reception (official policy discourages this)
Added context to tropes that needed them
Reworded portions of many examples to flow better (including altering run-on sentences)
Removed mentions of the game's name or "the first game" from examples moved from the series' page, since they're now redundant
Tried to reduce unnecessary spoilers through genericization (i.e. "the Final Boss" instead of "Nahatomb")
Adjusted indentation to separate some tropes with multiple examples into their own bullet list (i.e. Early-Installment Weirdness)
Shifting ending punctuation to be inside quotation marks — "like this," not "like this". The original page was inconsistent about this, so I decided to go for consistency
Slightly adjusted the third American Kirby Is Hardcore example — a Japanese sources gives Klonoa's age in this game as a fourth grader in elementary school (roughly 9-10 years old in Japan), so I altered a mention of his age to use this estimate.
Platform Hell is misuse (referring not to super-difficult games or levels but ones that intentionally don't play fair to frustrate the player)
Moved Product Placement to Feelies (on the Trivia page), since the product in question is only advertised via coupons that come with the game (nothing in the game itself)
Removed Nintendo Hard, since that trope's page specifies it has to apply to an entire game and this was solely about a Brutal Bonus Level
I recently made a massive edit to the page
and wanted to use this space to explain everything I changed at length:
- Altered the page quote to feature the entire opening monologue (including its original formatting — I admit this wasn't strictly necessary but I like how it looks)
- Heavily adjusted the description to fix run-on sentences & missing/otherwise improper punctuation
- Also removed mentions of critical reception (official policy discourages this)
- Added context to tropes that needed them
- Reworded portions of many examples to flow better (including altering run-on sentences)
- Removed mentions of the game's name or "the first game" from examples moved from the series' page, since they're now redundant
- Tried to reduce unnecessary spoilers through genericization (i.e. "the Final Boss" instead of "Nahatomb")
- Adjusted indentation to separate some tropes with multiple examples into their own bullet list (i.e. Early-Installment Weirdness)
- Shifting ending punctuation to be inside quotation marks — "like this," not "like this". The original page was inconsistent about this, so I decided to go for consistency
- Slightly adjusted the third American Kirby Is Hardcore example — a Japanese sources
gives Klonoa's age in this game as a fourth grader in elementary school (roughly 9-10 years old in Japan), so I altered a mention of his age to use this estimate.
- Platform Hell is misuse (referring not to super-difficult games or levels but ones that intentionally don't play fair to frustrate the player)
- Moved Product Placement to Feelies (on the Trivia page), since the product in question is only advertised via coupons that come with the game (nothing in the game itself)
- Removed Nintendo Hard, since that trope's page specifies it has to apply to an entire game and this was solely about a Brutal Bonus Level
- Changed Snap Back to Sliding Scale of Gameplay and Story Integration, since it seemed to fit the latter better (not sure about "snapping back" within the same installment); also reworded it
- Replaced a few dead soundtrack links
- Removed several tropes that were character-specific: Break the Cutie, The Dragon, Evil Laugh, Floating Limbs, Laughably Evil, Monster Clown, One-Winged Angel, and Sealed Evil in a Can. The ones that weren't already on the series' Characters page were moved there (and given more context if needed)
- I removed Taking You with Me outright because the example better fit Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum (which is already listed under the relevant character's folder on the other page)
Pinball cleanup thread