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Mega Man cover artvsSilver Surfer cover art

Mega ManvsSilver Surfer

Mega Man leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Silver Surfer leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Mega ManSilver Surfer

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 9

Silver Surfer leans harder on execution: One-hit deaths demand near-perfect dodging every second

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

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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