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NES Open Tournament Golf cover artvsSuper Mario Run cover art

NES Open Tournament GolfvsSuper Mario Run

NES Open Tournament Golf leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Super Mario Run leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
NES Open Tournament GolfSuper Mario Run

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 6

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 1

NES Open Tournament Golf leans harder on variance: Wind adds bounded randomness per hole

Optimization5 vs 4

NES Open Tournament Golf leans harder on optimization: Club choice and course knowledge are fully learnable

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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