Talk:To the Moon

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Do you think adding more details to the game's story after around halfway in would help improve the article's quality? Superjustinbros. (talk) 03:35, 20 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

One thing I don't like about most Wikipedia articles is that they're full of spoilers without any warnings. If we can avoid the spoilers, then sure. Wikipedian192 (talk) 05:46, 27 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

WP:SPOILERS -- "It is not acceptable to delete information from an article because you think it spoils the plot." — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 08:41, 27 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Dubious plot summary

"While he later meets, romances, and marries her; she thinks he doesn't really love her because he forgot their first encounter, and is slowly driven insane. This eventually leads, indirectly, to her death …" This is very much at odds with my understanding of the story, which is that she knows he loves her but, affected by her life-long pervasive developmental disorder, tries to remind him of their first meeting via origami rabbits. Her death resulted from her refusal of treatment for her later fatal illness, as she wanted their money to instead fund the completion of a house built next to their 'adopted' lighthouse, Anya. — Harlequin (talk) 00:56, 8 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This is entirely correct, as innumerable details within the game suggest (the fact that she cut her hair to the length it was during that first meeting, the fact that all the white rabbits symbolize the stars/lighthouses and the dual-colored one represents the constellation they made up, her insistence in asking him "what else", as if trying to trigger his memories, etc.). And therefore, I'm going to change the summary right now.

Weltall Zero (talk) 16:06, 23 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

GameSpot

There are a ton of GameSpot refs on this article right now. They're not listed as a generally reliable source—ideally those links will be replaced with something more notable. czar · · 00:18, 21 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

RPG?

While I like this game I'm still not sure why here and everywhere else it's listed as an RPG, sure it's made using RPG Maker but it doesn't have any RPG elements, barely any gameplay at all really just a few token adventure puzzles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.165.223.166 (talk) 18:57, 10 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

As much as the game suggests othewise, it is a role playing game as you play in first person with the doctors and the player does have some navigation to do themself. The developer also quotes "To the Moon is an indie Adventure RPG".

TheHalf-Shot (talk) 00:41, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that "RPG" is a rather dubious genre specification for this game. Reives also created "Do You Remember My Lullaby" in RPG maker, and it's not a game at all; it's a non-interactive story. And if you call "playing as a character" enough to classify it as "RPG" then any first person shooter game with a named main character could classify as "RPG".

In my opinion, To The Moon has much more in common with classic point-and-click adventure games like Monkey Island. There is no battle system, and even the item inventory in To The Moon is a side note, and never actually used as such. The only thing besides the base engine that could make it classify as RPG would be the classic Final Fantasy type art style, and last I checked, art style doesn't have any impact whatsoever on the game type.

Nyerguds (talk) 09:11, 9 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"Multiple issues"

This article is listed as having three issues: "needs additional citations for verification", "lead section of this article may need to be rewritten", "is incomplete". None of these seem to have any merit. There are no citation needed templates, there are no issues with the lead section, and only one section of the article is incomplete (Reception). I think, thus, that we should remove these warning entirely, although I don't want to do that without some consensus. Thoughts? AntiGravityMaster (talk) 20:25, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Agree with all three. The article has been expanded upon since the last tag was added three years ago. ~ Dissident93 ^(talk) 03:13, 15 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]