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Aggressive InlinevsSuper Mario Odyssey

Aggressive Inline leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Super Mario Odyssey leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE0 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Aggressive InlineSuper Mario Odyssey

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 8

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance0 vs 1

Super Mario Odyssey leans harder on variance: Almost no randomness in level design.

Optimization6 vs 5

Aggressive Inline leans harder on optimization: Line routing and juice management maximise scores

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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Super Mario Odyssey