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Super Metroid cover artvsWario Land 4 cover art

Super MetroidvsWario Land 4

Super Metroid leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Wario Land 4 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Super MetroidWario Land 4

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization7 vs 6

Super Metroid leans harder on optimization: Sequence-breaking route optimisation is the enduring meta-game

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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