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LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes cover artvsSonic Boom: Rise of Lyric cover art

LEGO Batman 2: DC Super HeroesvsSonic Boom: Rise of Lyric

LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION3 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution3 vs 4

Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric leans harder on execution: Simple brawling and platforming with generous margins

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 3

LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes leans harder on optimization: Matching character abilities to gated collectibles

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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