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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door cover artvsSunrider: Liberation Day cover art

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year DoorvsSunrider: Liberation Day

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Sunrider: Liberation Day leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION3 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year DoorSunrider: Liberation Day

Axis by axis

Execution3 vs 2

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door leans harder on execution: Action commands and stylish moves

Reads2 vs 2

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization7 vs 7

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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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

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Sunrider: Liberation Day