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NBA Street leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Nintendo World Cup leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION6 /10READS3 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 6

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads3 vs 3

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

Nintendo World Cup leans harder on variance: Ball physics add minor chaos

Optimization4 vs 3

NBA Street leans harder on optimization: Trick-point economy and Gamebreaker management are the meta

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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