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Sayonara Wild HeartsvsWii Play

Sayonara Wild Hearts leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Wii Play leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
Sayonara Wild HeartsWii Play

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 2

Wii Play leans harder on reads: Two-player duels add slight mutual prediction

Variance1 vs 2

Wii Play leans harder on variance: Find Mii crowds and target spawns randomise lightly

Optimization3 vs 2

Sayonara Wild Hearts leans harder on optimization: Gold-rank score chasing rewards route learning

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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