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A Hat in Time cover artvsDisney's Tarzan cover art

A Hat in TimevsDisney's Tarzan

A Hat in Time leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Disney's Tarzan leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION4 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
A Hat in TimeDisney's Tarzan

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 5

Disney's Tarzan leans harder on execution: Jump timing and projectile tossing carry the platforming

Reads1 vs 0

A Hat in Time leans harder on reads: Scripted bosses

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization3 vs 3

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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A Hat in Time

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Disney's Tarzan