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Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved cover artvsSuper Mario Maker cover art

Geometry Wars: Retro EvolvedvsSuper Mario Maker

Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Super Mario Maker leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION9 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Geometry Wars: Retro EvolvedSuper Mario Maker

Axis by axis

Execution9 vs 8

Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved leans harder on execution: Twin-stick dodging in swarming bullet chaos

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 4

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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