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Super Paper Mario leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 4

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.

Optimization6 vs 7

The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle leans harder on optimization: Each room is a solvable carrot-collection routing 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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