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Kong: Survivor Instinct cover artvsSpyro the Dragon cover art

Kong: Survivor InstinctvsSpyro the Dragon

Kong: Survivor Instinct leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Spyro the Dragon leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Kong: Survivor InstinctSpyro the Dragon

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 5

Kong: Survivor Instinct leans harder on execution: Side-scrolling combat and platforming need timing and hands

Reads1 vs 0

Kong: Survivor Instinct leans harder on reads: Titans and soldiers run fixed patterns

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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Kong: Survivor Instinct

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Spyro the Dragon