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Hyper Light Drifter cover artvsTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time cover art

Hyper Light DriftervsTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time

Hyper Light Drifter leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Hyper Light DrifterTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads2 vs 1

Hyper Light Drifter leans harder on reads: Scripted bosses with patterns

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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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time