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Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Super Mario 64 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Crazy Taxi 3: High RollerSuper Mario 64

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 1

Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller leans harder on variance: Fare spawns vary slightly run to run

Optimization6 vs 5

Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller leans harder on optimization: Map routes and shortcut knowledge separate scores

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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Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller

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Super Mario 64