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BattleBlock Theater cover artvsRayman Origins cover art

BattleBlock TheatervsRayman Origins

BattleBlock Theater leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Rayman Origins leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
BattleBlock TheaterRayman Origins

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 7

Rayman Origins leans harder on execution: Fluid run-jump-glide chains

Reads1 vs 0

BattleBlock Theater leans harder on reads: Versus mode adds light human chaos.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

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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