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Looney Tunes: Back in Action leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Psychonauts leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Looney Tunes: Back in ActionPsychonauts

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 6

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 0

Looney Tunes: Back in Action leans harder on reads: Enemies are scripted, no adaptation

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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