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Donkey KongvsGhostrunner 2

Donkey Kong leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Ghostrunner 2 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 9

Ghostrunner 2 leans harder on execution: One-hit-kill parkour demands frame-tight dashes and slashes

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 5

Donkey Kong leans harder on optimization: Stage patterns and score routes fully learnable

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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