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Super Mario Run cover artvsTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project cover art

Super Mario RunvsTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project

Super Mario Run leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Super Mario RunTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 7

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project leans harder on execution: beat-em-up timing and enemy juggling

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 3

Super Mario Run leans harder on optimization: Routing perfect coin runs is a solvable layout puzzle

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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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project