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Kill Knight cover artvsMetal Slug cover art

Kill KnightvsMetal Slug

Kill Knight leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Metal Slug leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
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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.

Variance2 vs 1

Kill Knight leans harder on variance: Arena waves vary slightly between attempts

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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