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Rad Racer cover artvsSuper Mario Run cover art

Rad RacervsSuper Mario Run

Rad Racer leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Super Mario Run leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE0 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Rad RacerSuper Mario Run

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 6

Rad Racer leans harder on execution: Holding speed through hairpins is pure reflex driving

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance0 vs 1

Super Mario Run leans harder on variance: Courses are fixed and fully learnable

Optimization4 vs 4

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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