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Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time cover artvsHudson's Adventure Island cover art

Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About TimevsHudson's Adventure Island

Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Hudson's Adventure Island leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About TimeHudson's Adventure Island

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 8

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

Hudson's Adventure Island leans harder on variance: fruit/egg drops randomized

Optimization4 vs 3

Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time leans harder on optimization: N. Verted and flashback routing

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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Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time

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Hudson's Adventure Island