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Super Meat Boy Forever cover artvsWarioWare: Smooth Moves cover art

Super Meat Boy ForevervsWarioWare: Smooth Moves

Super Meat Boy Forever leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); WarioWare: Smooth Moves leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
Super Meat Boy ForeverWarioWare: Smooth Moves

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 7

Super Meat Boy Forever leans harder on execution: Auto-runner still demands tight timing

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization3 vs 3

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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Super Meat Boy Forever

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