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All Guns on Deck cover artvsPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door cover art

All Guns on DeckvsPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

All Guns on Deck leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION3 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
All Guns on DeckPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Axis by axis

Execution3 vs 3

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads2 vs 2

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 7

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door leans harder on optimization: Badge builds and partner tactics

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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