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Skylar & Plux: Adventure on Clover Island cover artvsSuper Mario Galaxy cover art

Skylar & Plux: Adventure on Clover IslandvsSuper Mario Galaxy

Skylar & Plux: Adventure on Clover Island leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Super Mario Galaxy leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Skylar & Plux: Adventure on Clover IslandSuper Mario Galaxy

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 6

Super Mario Galaxy leans harder on execution: Gravity-bending jumps need timing, though forgiving by Mario standards

Reads1 vs 0

Skylar & Plux: Adventure on Clover Island leans harder on reads: Solo; enemies follow scripted patterns

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

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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