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Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty cover artvsSuper Paper Mario cover art

Oddworld: New 'n' TastyvsSuper Paper Mario

Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Super Paper Mario leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Oddworld: New 'n' TastySuper Paper Mario

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 4

Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty leans harder on execution: Analog platforming with instant-death timing

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization7 vs 6

Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty leans harder on optimization: Rescue routing and puzzle solutions converge fully

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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