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Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire cover artvsRogue Legacy cover art

Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & SapphirevsRogue Legacy

Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Rogue Legacy leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
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Execution6 vs 5

Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire leans harder on execution: Flipper timing for catch and evolution shots

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance4 vs 5

Rogue Legacy leans harder on variance: Heir traits and room layouts introduce run-to-run randomness

Optimization6 vs 6

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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