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Lumines Remastered cover artvsRatchet & Clank: A Crack in Time cover art

Lumines RemasteredvsRatchet & Clank: A Crack in Time

Lumines Remastered leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 5

Lumines Remastered leans harder on execution: fast block placement under time pressure

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance4 vs 2

Lumines Remastered leans harder on variance: random block sequences drive setups

Optimization7 vs 7

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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