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Adventure Island II leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); inFamous Second Son leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 5

Adventure Island II leans harder on execution: Momentum-heavy jumps and constant hunger timer pressure

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 1

Adventure Island II leans harder on variance: Egg contents and dinosaur drops add light randomness

Optimization5 vs 5

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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