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Fruit Ninja cover artvsTime Surfer cover art

Fruit NinjavsTime Surfer

Fruit Ninja leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Time Surfer leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION7 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION2 /10
Fruit NinjaTime Surfer

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 8

Time Surfer leans harder on execution: precise timing-based reflex dodging

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization2 vs 2

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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Fruit Ninja

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Time Surfer