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Clone Hero cover artvsCrash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time cover art

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Clone Hero leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION9 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE0 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution9 vs 8

Clone Hero leans harder on execution: Community charts push fretting speed past official games

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance0 vs 1

Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time leans harder on variance: Deterministic levels

Optimization4 vs 4

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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