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Dangerous Dave cover artvsPsychonauts cover art

Dangerous DavevsPsychonauts

Dangerous Dave leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Psychonauts leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE0 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Dangerous DavePsychonauts

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 6

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance0 vs 1

Psychonauts leans harder on variance: Level layouts are fixed and quickly known

Optimization4 vs 4

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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