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Octodad: Dadliest Catch cover artvsStar Wars: Jedi Starfighter cover art

Octodad: Dadliest CatchvsStar Wars: Jedi Starfighter

Octodad: Dadliest Catch leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 6

Octodad: Dadliest Catch leans harder on execution: Deliberately clumsy limb controls are the whole challenge

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization3 vs 4

Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter leans harder on optimization: Craft selection and objective routing improve medal runs

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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