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Dance Dance Revolution Supernova 2 cover artvsGuitar Hero II cover art

Dance Dance Revolution Supernova 2vsGuitar Hero II

Dance Dance Revolution Supernova 2 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Guitar Hero II leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION9 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
Dance Dance Revolution Supernova 2Guitar Hero II

Axis by axis

Execution9 vs 9

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 0

Dance Dance Revolution Supernova 2 leans harder on variance: Step charts are fixed with nothing hidden

Optimization3 vs 2

Dance Dance Revolution Supernova 2 leans harder on optimization: Foot patterning has minor learnable efficiency

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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