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Katana ZERO cover artvsLonely Mountains: Downhill cover art

Katana ZEROvsLonely Mountains: Downhill

Katana ZERO leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Lonely Mountains: Downhill leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Katana ZEROLonely Mountains: Downhill

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 8

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

Lonely Mountains: Downhill leans harder on variance: Minimal RNG; courses are deterministic once learned

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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Katana ZERO

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Lonely Mountains: Downhill