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Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Metroid Prime Remastered leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 6

Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest leans harder on execution: Demanding jump chains and animal-buddy control

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 6

Metroid Prime Remastered leans harder on optimization: sequence breaking, item routing, upgrades

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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