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Red Faction: Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Yoku's Island Express leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 6

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 0

Red Faction: Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered leans harder on reads: EDF response is scripted escalation, not adaptation

Variance1 vs 2

Yoku's Island Express leans harder on variance: Ball physics adds small bounce unpredictability

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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