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Katana ZERO cover artvsTetris DX cover art

Katana ZEROvsTetris DX

Katana ZERO leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Tetris DX leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Katana ZEROTetris DX

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 9

Tetris DX leans harder on execution: Precise placement under accelerating gravity decides every game

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

Tetris DX leans harder on variance: Random pieces are bounded and rapidly mappable

Optimization6 vs 4

Katana ZERO leans harder on optimization: Planning the perfect room-clear sequence

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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Tetris DX