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Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut cover artvsSuper Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz cover art

Sonic Adventure DX: Director's CutvsSuper Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz

Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Sonic Adventure DX: Director's CutSuper Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 7

Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz leans harder on execution: Tilt-and-jump precision on narrow courses is everything

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

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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Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut

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Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz