head to head
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed asks more than Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, and the gap is optimization.

Execution · Twitch Chaos
A party collection of timing minigames designed to keep everyone competitive.

Execution · Twitch Chaos
Kart racing execution moderated by item randomness and learnable track routes.
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 leans Execution (Twitch Chaos); Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed leans Execution (Twitch Chaos).
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020
Button-timing and waggle minigames are the core test
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
Drift timing and transforming vehicle control reward practice
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020
Light couch-PvP guessing in some head-to-head events
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
Human racers add light positional mind games
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020
Event RNG and party chaos level the field
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
Item rolls regularly upend race positions
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed leans clearly harder on optimization.
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020
Each event has a shallow optimal technique to learn
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
Track shortcuts and drift-boost routes are learnable
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.
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