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Looney Tunes: Back in Action cover artvsOri and the Blind Forest cover art

Looney Tunes: Back in ActionvsOri and the Blind Forest

Looney Tunes: Back in Action leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Ori and the Blind Forest leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Looney Tunes: Back in ActionOri and the Blind Forest

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 7

Ori and the Blind Forest leans harder on execution: Precise platforming and bash-chain escape sequences

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 1

Looney Tunes: Back in Action leans harder on variance: Minimal randomness in levels

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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Ori and the Blind Forest