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Angry Birds Blast! cover artvsEarthBound cover art

Angry Birds Blast!vsEarthBound

Angry Birds Blast! leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); EarthBound leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE5 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Angry Birds Blast!EarthBound

Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 2

EarthBound leans harder on execution: Rolling HP meter has very mild timing implication

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance5 vs 4

Angry Birds Blast! leans harder on variance: Board layout and power-up drops are randomized

Optimization7 vs 7

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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