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Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time cover artvsThe House of the Dead 4 cover art

Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About TimevsThe House of the Dead 4

Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); The House of the Dead 4 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About TimeThe House of the Dead 4

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 9

The House of the Dead 4 leans harder on execution: Light-gun aiming and reload timing decide everything

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

The House of the Dead 4 leans harder on variance: Spawn order is fixed once memorized

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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Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time

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The House of the Dead 4