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Marble It Up!vsMega Man 2
Marble It Up! leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Mega Man 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Marble It Up!Mega Man 2
Axis by axis
Execution9 vs 8
Marble It Up! leans harder on execution: Frame-perfect marble control and boosting decide every run
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
Mega Man 2 leans harder on optimization: weapon-weakness ordering is the classic solve
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.