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Kirby: Triple Deluxe cover artvsNight in the Woods cover art

Kirby: Triple DeluxevsNight in the Woods

Kirby: Triple Deluxe leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Night in the Woods leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION3 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Kirby: Triple DeluxeNight in the Woods

Axis by axis

Execution3 vs 2

Kirby: Triple Deluxe leans harder on execution: Easy main game, modest arena challenges

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 4

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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Kirby: Triple Deluxe

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Night in the Woods