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Pac-Mania leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 1

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time leans harder on reads: Foot Soldiers run fixed scripts.

Variance2 vs 1

Pac-Mania leans harder on variance: Ghost movements add mild run-to-run unpredictability

Optimization5 vs 5

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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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time