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Mega Man 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); OlliOlli World leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 8

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 0

Mega Man 2 leans harder on variance: deterministic once stage layouts known

Optimization6 vs 5

Mega Man 2 leans harder on optimization: weapon-weakness ordering is the classic solve

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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