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Cytus II cover artvsTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project cover art

Cytus IIvsTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project

Cytus II leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE0 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
Cytus IITeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 7

Cytus II leans harder on execution: Denser scan-line charts at the top difficulties

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance0 vs 1

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project leans harder on variance: minor enemy spawn randomness

Optimization3 vs 3

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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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project