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Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft cover artvsYoshi's Safari cover art

Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara CroftvsYoshi's Safari

Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Yoshi's Safari leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
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Execution6 vs 7

Yoshi's Safari leans harder on execution: Super Scope aim speed and accuracy is the entire test

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

Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft leans harder on optimization: exploration routes and puzzles solvable

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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