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Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland cover artvsPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door cover art

Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy RupeelandvsPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION2 /10READS3 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy RupeelandPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Axis by axis

Execution2 vs 3

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door leans harder on execution: Action commands and stylish moves

Reads3 vs 2

Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland leans harder on reads: NPC haggling has fixed thresholds, not adaptive modeling

Variance3 vs 3

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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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door