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8-Bit Bayonetta cover artvsWii Play cover art

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8-Bit Bayonetta leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Wii Play leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION2 /10
8-Bit BayonettaWii Play

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 5

Wii Play leans harder on execution: Pointer aim and timing carry shooting and ping-pong games

Reads0 vs 2

Wii Play leans harder on reads: Two-player duels add slight mutual prediction

Variance1 vs 2

Wii Play leans harder on variance: Find Mii crowds and target spawns randomise lightly

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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