The Sailor Moon Pocky Box : Reviews

Neo Queen Serenity's Palace

Date Reviewed: May 14, 2006

Category: The Bad

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Layout & Design

Is the layout intuitive and easy to navigate? Is it compatible across all browsers and resolution? Is it aesthetically pleasing?

Mimette

Layout. You all know that this is my favorite section to review, so lets jump right in.

Alright now that I have recovered myself from laughing on my floor for a bit, I can tell you why I am laughing like a maniac. Go compare the background of this splashpage with Kirby's livejournal. Gotta love when people lift Geocities backgrounds and like to act like they are some REAL work of art. *goes to laugh a bit more*

Alright now that I am a bit better composed, I am past the splash page and into the main site. This site is definitely a new meaning to "simple and clean" style. Though I can't shake the feeling that I have seen this layout somewhere before... However it is a simple layout so it could just be my imagination.

Unfortunately the layout is not fluid throughout the site. It seems to work for the main page, but after only a couple of links it starts to go downhill. I start getting pages that are just blatantly "centered" and then have tiled backgrounds.... most of them badly tiled.

There isn't much more to say about this layout. It started out well, but it needs a lot of work/help.

Written Content

Is there lots of written information? Are all profiles, back story, and other textual content accurate? Does the site offer fanfiction or other miscellaneous written content?

Ptilol

The main page opens with med-dark purple text on a light purple background. The contrast is done well enough that it's easy to read. The navigation is easy to find and use. So far so good...

Checking out the "Story" section, I almost want to introduce my forehead to the top of my desk. The webperson claims to have written the summary themselves based on the American version. *cringe* Skimming over it I find all sorts of irritating grammatical errors (and typos). On top of that, the image in the background interferes with the text. On another note, it also seems like it's "reworded" from another summary on some other site. Let's move on before I get really cranky...

The Character Profiles aren't nearly as bad (thankfully). They're still nothing spectacular in the penmanship department. The text is a little hard to read in some places, but otherwise ok.

The episode listing/summaries looks copied to me. The grammer is just too good compared to the rest of the content on this site. That's just me... I could be wrong.

The rest of the stuff is just as generic. It doesn't impress me. Don't worry Webperson, you won't owe me any Kudos, however, you aren't getting any from me either.

Visual Content

What kind of visual content is offered? Is it efficiently organized and intuitively accessible? Are all visual media offered legally?

Eudial

Heeeeeeeeeeeeello Neo Queen Serenity's Palace. And being that I am reviewing this on Mother's Day, I'd like to say Happy Mother's Day to all those awesome females we call moms, including Neo Queen Serenity herself. Yep, right, on the media I go.

So my job shall be to see if the images on this site are working correctly, and to see if this site has anything else to provide to it besides the generic picture gallery. Alright, as I'm cycling through this site, the only picture issue so far is that Sailor Chibi Chibi's picture doesn't display. Moving right along to the image gallery.

Oh gosh, quite a decent number of pictures. They should probably be grouped according to their size, however, because the appearance of the gallery looks kind of off. Its typical that Usagi has the most pictures, and as the other character decrease in popularity or general knowledge, there will be a smaller amount of pictures in their gallery. Easy example there, lets say the usagi gallery had 20+ images in it, whereas the Sailor Pluto gallery had around < 12 images.

There were quite a few broken images in the Misc. section of the gallery, so that will need to be seen to. This is the same with the Pairs & Couples section, and the "Serena and Rini" and "Tuxedo Mask" galleries are just dead.

We got some amimated gif files here. Most of these are taken from the old fighting video games. I know this because I did play them quite a bit, and was quite addicted to them. Moving on...

This person has music files in there! Yay! Appears to be a mixed grouping of MIDI files. I am currently clicking these links randomly, and they all have worked so far. Good.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK, in the middle of my review, the geocities server for this site just crashed....yes...Thats just...wow. Ok, ummm, on that note, not that bad of a site, media wise. Could be cleaned up a bit though. Make it more pretty.

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