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Heavy Rain cover artvsHungry Shark Evolution cover art

Heavy RainvsHungry Shark Evolution

Heavy Rain leans Execution (Light / Casual); Hungry Shark Evolution leans Execution (Twitch Chaos).

EXECUTION3 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution3 vs 4

Hungry Shark Evolution leans harder on execution: Steering combo chains and dodging hazards is light reflex work

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 3

Hungry Shark Evolution leans harder on variance: Spawn randomness shapes each scoring run

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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