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Never Alone: Kisima Ingitchuna leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Retrowave leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION2 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 5

Retrowave leans harder on execution: Weaving through highway traffic at speed is the whole skill

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

Retrowave leans harder on variance: Traffic patterns vary run to run

Optimization2 vs 2

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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