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Nintendo Badge Arcade cover artvsThe Last of Us Remastered cover art

Nintendo Badge ArcadevsThe Last of Us Remastered

Nintendo Badge Arcade leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); The Last of Us Remastered leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 4

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 2

Nintendo Badge Arcade leans harder on variance: Badge stacks and physics tumble somewhat unpredictably

Optimization5 vs 4

Nintendo Badge Arcade leans harder on optimization: Picking high-yield drop angles is a small solvable puzzle

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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The Last of Us Remastered