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Chicken Invaders 5: Cluck of the Dark Side leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Ruiner leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 2

Chicken Invaders 5: Cluck of the Dark Side leans harder on variance: Spawn patterns and drops vary slightly

Optimization4 vs 5

Ruiner leans harder on optimization: Respeccable skill builds per arena are a solvable puzzle.

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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