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Limbo cover artvsSonic CD cover art

LimbovsSonic CD

Limbo leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Sonic CD leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
LimboSonic CD

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 6

Sonic CD leans harder on execution: Maintaining speed for time travel takes clean play

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 6

Sonic CD leans harder on optimization: Past-future routing for good endings is a planning problem

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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