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Far Cry cover artvsLumines II cover art

Far CryvsLumines II

Far Cry leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Lumines II leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION7 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Far CryLumines II

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 8

Lumines II leans harder on execution: Placing blocks against the timeline under speed is everything

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 3

Lumines II leans harder on variance: Block sequence is random but bounded and readable

Optimization5 vs 5

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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