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Beat Hazard cover artvsPostal 2 cover art

Beat HazardvsPostal 2

Beat Hazard leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Postal 2 leans Execution (Twitch Chaos).

EXECUTION7 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Beat HazardPostal 2

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 6

Beat Hazard leans harder on execution: Twin-stick dodging through music-driven bullet swarms

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance4 vs 4

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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Beat Hazard

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Postal 2