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A Story About My Uncle cover artvsVirtual Bart cover art

A Story About My UnclevsVirtual Bart

A Story About My Uncle leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Virtual Bart leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
A Story About My UncleVirtual Bart

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 6

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

Virtual Bart leans harder on variance: The wheel picks stage order randomly, nothing more

Optimization4 vs 3

A Story About My Uncle leans harder on optimization: Finding efficient swing lines through each cavern

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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