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DoDonPachi cover artvsKatana ZERO cover art

DoDonPachivsKatana ZERO

DoDonPachi leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Katana ZERO leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION9 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution9 vs 8

DoDonPachi leans harder on execution: Threading dense bullet curtains demands pixel-perfect movement

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization7 vs 6

DoDonPachi leans harder on optimization: Chain meter routing defines high-level play entirely

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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