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Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games cover artvsWii Play cover art

Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic GamesvsWii Play

Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games leans Execution (Twitch Chaos); Wii Play leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION5 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION2 /10
Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic GamesWii Play

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads2 vs 2

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 2

Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games leans harder on variance: Event RNG and motion-control noise add slop

Optimization2 vs 2

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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