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Castle Crashers cover artvsNHL 2004 cover art

Castle CrashersvsNHL 2004

Castle Crashers leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); NHL 2004 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS3 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Castle CrashersNHL 2004

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 6

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads3 vs 4

NHL 2004 leans harder on reads: Human opponents make lane-reading a live mind game

Variance2 vs 2

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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Castle Crashers

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