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Final FightvsJr. Pac-Man

Final Fight leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Jr. Pac-Man leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Final FightJr. Pac-Man

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 7

Jr. Pac-Man leans harder on execution: Tight cornering in larger scrolling mazes under constant pursuit

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 6

Jr. Pac-Man leans harder on optimization: Ghost patterns and clearing routes are 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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