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Castle Crashers cover artvsCustom Robo cover art

Castle CrashersvsCustom Robo

Castle Crashers leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Custom Robo leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS3 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Castle CrashersCustom Robo

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 6

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads3 vs 4

Custom Robo leans harder on reads: Versus battles reward predicting a human's movement habits

Variance2 vs 1

Castle Crashers leans harder on variance: Enemy spawns follow scripted patterns with minimal randomness

Optimization5 vs 7

Custom Robo leans harder on optimization: Building synergistic loadouts from 200 parts is half the game

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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