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Beyond Good & Evil cover artvsSuper Exploding Zoo cover art

Beyond Good & EvilvsSuper Exploding Zoo

Beyond Good & Evil leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Super Exploding Zoo leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Beyond Good & EvilSuper Exploding Zoo

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 4

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 1

Super Exploding Zoo leans harder on reads: Alien marauders are scripted, not adaptive

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 6

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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Beyond Good & Evil

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Super Exploding Zoo