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Spyro the Dragon cover artvsType: Rider cover art

Spyro the DragonvsType: Rider

Spyro the Dragon leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Type: Rider leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Spyro the DragonType: Rider

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 4

Spyro the Dragon leans harder on execution: Gliding and charging need modest precision at most

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 0

Spyro the Dragon leans harder on variance: Gem locations are fixed once levels are explored

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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Type: Rider