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Space Channel 5: Part 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Tetris Effect leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Space Channel 5: Part 2Tetris Effect

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 8

Tetris Effect leans harder on execution: Piece placement under speed and Zone timing is the whole test

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

Tetris Effect leans harder on variance: Randomised bag is bounded and quickly mappable

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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Space Channel 5: Part 2

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