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Kid Icarus: Uprising cover artvsPyre cover art

Kid Icarus: UprisingvsPyre

Kid Icarus: Uprising leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Pyre leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS3 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 5

Kid Icarus: Uprising leans harder on execution: Stylus aiming through flight and ground combat

Reads3 vs 3

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

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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