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36 Fragments of Midnight cover artvsTemple Run cover art

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36 Fragments of Midnight leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Temple Run leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION2 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 7

Temple Run leans harder on execution: Swipe reactions at ever-rising speed

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 4

Temple Run leans harder on variance: Procedural track segments each run

Optimization2 vs 2

Even - both lean on optimization about the same.

Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

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