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Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 cover artvsSonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed cover art

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020vsSonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 leans Execution (Twitch Chaos); Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed leans Execution (Twitch Chaos).

EXECUTION5 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION2 /10
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 6

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed leans harder on execution: Drift timing and transforming vehicle control reward practice

Reads2 vs 2

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 4

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed leans harder on variance: Item rolls regularly upend race positions

Optimization2 vs 4

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed leans harder on optimization: Track shortcuts and drift-boost routes are learnable

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 & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020

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Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed