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Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge cover artvsUncharted: Drake's Fortune cover art

Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's RevengevsUncharted: Drake's Fortune

Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Uncharted: Drake's Fortune leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's RevengeUncharted: Drake's Fortune

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 5

Uncharted: Drake's Fortune leans harder on execution: Cover gunfights and climbing timing

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 4

Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge leans harder on optimization: Routing jiggies and ability unlocks across worlds is the structure

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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Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge

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Uncharted: Drake's Fortune