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Fruit Ninja cover artvsSuper Meat Boy Forever cover art

Fruit NinjavsSuper Meat Boy Forever

Fruit Ninja leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Super Meat Boy Forever leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION7 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION2 /10
Fruit NinjaSuper Meat Boy Forever

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 8

Super Meat Boy Forever leans harder on execution: Auto-runner still demands tight timing

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization2 vs 3

Super Meat Boy Forever leans harder on optimization: Memorize chunk patterns for clean runs

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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