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God's TriggervsSuper Castlevania IV

God's Trigger leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Super Castlevania IV leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
God's TriggerSuper Castlevania IV

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 7

God's Trigger leans harder on execution: One-hit deaths make every room a precision speed test

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 5

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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