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Battletoads / Double Dragon cover artvsStreets of Rage cover art

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Battletoads / Double Dragon leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Streets of Rage leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 7

Battletoads / Double Dragon leans harder on execution: Unforgiving brawls and vehicle stages punish any input slip

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 5

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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