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Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time cover artvsThe Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia cover art

Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About TimevsThe Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia

Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About TimeThe Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 9

The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia leans harder on execution: Typing exorcisms while dodging bullets is a pure split-brain test

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia leans harder on variance: Patterns are fixed once learned

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 Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia