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Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero? cover artvsSuper Mario 64 cover art

Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?vsSuper Mario 64

Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero? leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Super Mario 64 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION8 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?Super Mario 64

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 7

Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero? leans harder on execution: Brutally tight jump and attack timing is the wall

Reads1 vs 0

Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero? leans harder on reads: Enemies and bosses follow scripted patterns

Variance1 vs 1

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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