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Donkey Kong 64 cover artvsTrine 2 cover art

Donkey Kong 64vsTrine 2

Donkey Kong 64 leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Trine 2 leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Donkey Kong 64Trine 2

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 4

Donkey Kong 64 leans harder on execution: Moderate platforming and minigame dexterity

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization7 vs 7

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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Donkey Kong 64

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