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Jr. Pac-Man leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Metal Slug leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 8

Metal Slug leans harder on execution: Dodging dense bullet patterns and precise shots carry every credit

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 1

Jr. Pac-Man leans harder on variance: Minor timing randomness; behaviour is essentially mappable

Optimization6 vs 6

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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