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Hong Kong 97 cover artvsWii Play cover art

Hong Kong 97vsWii Play

Hong Kong 97 leans Execution (Twitch Chaos); Wii Play leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION1 /10
Hong Kong 97Wii Play

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 5

Wii Play leans harder on execution: Pointer aim and timing carry shooting and ping-pong games

Reads0 vs 2

Wii Play leans harder on reads: Two-player duels add slight mutual prediction

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization1 vs 2

Wii Play leans harder on optimization: Minigames are too shallow to deeply optimise

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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