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Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games cover artvsWii Play cover art

Dumb Ways to Die 2: The GamesvsWii Play

Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Wii Play leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION2 /10
Dumb Ways to Die 2: The GamesWii Play

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 5

Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games leans harder on execution: Split-second swipes and taps are the entire test

Reads0 vs 2

Wii Play leans harder on reads: Two-player duels add slight mutual prediction

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization2 vs 2

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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Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games

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