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Pac-Mania leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Yoku's Island Express leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

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

Execution7 vs 6

Pac-Mania leans harder on execution: Steering and jump timing under ghost pressure decide runs

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

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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