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No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle cover artvsTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time cover art

No More Heroes 2: Desperate StrugglevsTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time

No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
No More Heroes 2: Desperate StruggleTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 7

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time leans harder on execution: Throw timing, positioning, and boss dodges are the whole test.

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 5

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time leans harder on optimization: Wave layouts and boss patterns are fully memorisable.

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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No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time