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Air-Sea Battle cover artvsWii Play cover art

Air-Sea BattlevsWii Play

Air-Sea Battle leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Wii Play leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION6 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION2 /10
Air-Sea BattleWii Play

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 5

Air-Sea Battle leans harder on execution: Timing shots on moving targets is the entire game

Reads2 vs 2

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

Wii Play leans harder on variance: Find Mii crowds and target spawns randomise lightly

Optimization2 vs 2

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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Air-Sea Battle

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Wii Play