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AM2R cover artvsShovel Knight cover art

AM2RvsShovel Knight

AM2R leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Shovel Knight leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
AM2RShovel Knight

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 6

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 4

AM2R leans harder on optimization: Item routing and sequence breaks

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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