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Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games cover artvsUncharted 4: A Thief's End cover art

Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter GamesvsUncharted 4: A Thief's End

Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Uncharted 4: A Thief's End leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter GamesUncharted 4: A Thief's End

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads2 vs 1

Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games leans harder on reads: Local multiplayer adds mild outguessing in head-to-head events

Variance2 vs 1

Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games leans harder on variance: Item-style event quirks inject light party randomness

Optimization3 vs 3

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 & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games

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Uncharted 4: A Thief's End