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EarthBound cover artvsThe Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy cover art

EarthBoundvsThe Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy

EarthBound leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION2 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
EarthBoundThe Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy

Axis by axis

Execution2 vs 1

EarthBound leans harder on execution: Rolling HP meter has very mild timing implication

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance4 vs 4

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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The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy