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Party Wave

2012 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ125364625 ↗
Source-derived summary

Party Wave is a puzzle video game developed and published by Mistwalker for Android and iOS in 2012.

Reception

The iOS version received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Party Wave” is 2012 video game. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Party, Wave and video, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2012-07-20. For this dossier, Party, Wave and video is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “2012 video game” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q125364625. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2012.

Critical limits

A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  • Locating named sources
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The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Party Wave”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Party Wave primary sources, Party Wave archive and Party research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Party Wave”?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Party Wave” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.