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Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure cover artvsRayman Origins cover art

Pitfall: The Mayan AdventurevsRayman Origins

Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Rayman Origins leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION7 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
Pitfall: The Mayan AdventureRayman Origins

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

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

Rayman Origins leans harder on optimization: Lum routing for perfection

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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Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure

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Rayman Origins