head to head
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Crash Team Racing Nitro-FueledvsSuper Mario Bros. 35
Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Super Mario Bros. 35 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Crash Team Racing Nitro-FueledSuper Mario Bros. 35
Axis by axis
Execution8 vs 8
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads2 vs 2
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance4 vs 4
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization6 vs 5
Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled leans harder on optimization: Track-specific boost chains and shortcut routes are fully memorisable
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.