head to head

Mario & Luigi: Brothership cover artvsOddworld: Abe's Oddysee cover art

Mario & Luigi: BrothershipvsOddworld: Abe's Oddysee

Mario & Luigi: Brothership leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Mario & Luigi: BrothershipOddworld: Abe's Oddysee

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

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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Mario & Luigi: Brothership

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Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee