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Army Men 3D cover artvsSuper Mario Run cover art

Army Men 3DvsSuper Mario Run

Army Men 3D leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Super Mario Run leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Army Men 3DSuper Mario Run

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 6

Super Mario Run leans harder on execution: One-handed tap timing for coin lines demands precision

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 1

Army Men 3D leans harder on variance: Mission layouts are fixed after first contact

Optimization4 vs 4

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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Super Mario Run