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Deliver Us MarsvsThomas Was Alone

Deliver Us Mars leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Thomas Was Alone leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION3 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution3 vs 4

Thomas Was Alone leans harder on execution: Light precision jumps per quadrilateral

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 0

Deliver Us Mars leans harder on variance: The story route is fixed once traversed

Optimization5 vs 5

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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