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Happy FeetvsSayonara Wild Hearts

Happy Feet leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Sayonara Wild Hearts leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 0

Happy Feet leans harder on reads: No adaptive opponents in a scripted world

Variance2 vs 1

Happy Feet leans harder on variance: Minimal randomness

Optimization3 vs 3

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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