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Dance Central cover artvsDonkey Kong Junior cover art

Dance CentralvsDonkey Kong Junior

Dance Central leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Donkey Kong Junior leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE0 /10OPTIMIZATION2 /10
Dance CentralDonkey Kong Junior

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 8

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance0 vs 1

Donkey Kong Junior leans harder on variance: minor enemy timing variance

Optimization2 vs 2

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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Dance Central

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Donkey Kong Junior