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GhostbustersvsThe World Ends with You

Ghostbusters leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); The World Ends with You leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 6

The World Ends with You leans harder on execution: Frantic stylus combat juggling two characters at once

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 2

Ghostbusters leans harder on variance: Ghost spawns and alarms roll randomly across the map

Optimization6 vs 6

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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