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Marvel's Spider-Man 2vsNo Straight Roads
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); No Straight Roads leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Marvel's Spider-Man 2No Straight Roads
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 6
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads1 vs 0
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 leans harder on reads: Enemies scripted, not modeling player.
Variance1 vs 1
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization5 vs 6
No Straight Roads leans harder on optimization: Learning each boss's beat-mapped moveset
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.