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Dirt 3 cover artvsSuper Mario Odyssey cover art

Dirt 3vsSuper Mario Odyssey

Dirt 3 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Super Mario Odyssey leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Dirt 3Super Mario Odyssey

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.

Variance2 vs 1

Dirt 3 leans harder on variance: Surface conditions and minor physics noise per run

Optimization6 vs 5

Dirt 3 leans harder on optimization: Stage knowledge and setup tuning reward study

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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