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Summer Carnival '92: Recca cover artvsSuper Mario Maker cover art

Summer Carnival '92: ReccavsSuper Mario Maker

Summer Carnival '92: Recca leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Super Mario Maker leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION9 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Summer Carnival '92: ReccaSuper Mario Maker

Axis by axis

Execution9 vs 8

Summer Carnival '92: Recca leans harder on execution: Extreme bullet density makes dodging and aim everything

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 3

Super Mario Maker leans harder on variance: Unknown user levels are hidden information until attempted

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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Summer Carnival '92: Recca

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