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A Difficult Game About Climbing leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Mega Man 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION9 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Execution9 vs 8

A Difficult Game About Climbing leans harder on execution: Perfect mouse control of two hands IS the game

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 6

Mega Man 2 leans harder on optimization: weapon-weakness ordering is the classic solve

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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