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Mario Kart Wii cover artvsRain World cover art

Mario Kart WiivsRain World

Mario Kart Wii leans Execution (Twitch Chaos); Rain World leans Variance (Twitch Chaos).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE6 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Mario Kart WiiRain World

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 6

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance6 vs 7

Rain World leans harder on variance: Creature placement and behavior shift unpredictably each cycle

Optimization5 vs 5

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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