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Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition cover artvsNinja Gaiden: Ragebound cover art

Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship EditionvsNinja Gaiden: Ragebound

Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION7 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship EditionNinja Gaiden: Ragebound

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 8

Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound leans harder on execution: Tight ninja platforming and strike timing dominate every screen

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 0

Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition leans harder on variance: Hand-built world with nothing random

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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