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City of Heroes cover artvsPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door cover art

City of HeroesvsPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

City of Heroes leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION2 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
City of HeroesPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Axis by axis

Execution2 vs 3

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door leans harder on execution: Action commands and stylish moves

Reads2 vs 2

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 3

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door leans harder on variance: Audience and badge effects

Optimization7 vs 7

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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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door