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M1 Tank Platoon cover artvsPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door cover art

M1 Tank PlatoonvsPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

M1 Tank Platoon leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION3 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION8 /10
M1 Tank PlatoonPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Axis by axis

Execution3 vs 3

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads2 vs 2

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance4 vs 3

M1 Tank Platoon leans harder on variance: Fog-of-war and scripted-unknown enemy positions

Optimization8 vs 7

M1 Tank Platoon leans harder on optimization: Platoon coordination and tactical positioning win battles

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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