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Mega Man X3 cover artvsMy Friend Pedro cover art

Mega Man X3vsMy Friend Pedro

Mega Man X3 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); My Friend Pedro leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE0 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Mega Man X3My Friend Pedro

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 7

Mega Man X3 leans harder on execution: Dash-jump precision and boss dodging demand tight inputs

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance0 vs 1

My Friend Pedro leans harder on variance: Deterministic levels

Optimization6 vs 6

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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Mega Man X3

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My Friend Pedro