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True Crime: Streets of LA cover artvsWarioWare D.I.Y. cover art

True Crime: Streets of LAvsWarioWare D.I.Y.

True Crime: Streets of LA leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); WarioWare D.I.Y. leans Execution (Twitch Chaos).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
True Crime: Streets of LAWarioWare D.I.Y.

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 3

WarioWare D.I.Y. leans harder on variance: Random microgame order keeps each session unpredictable until learned

Optimization4 vs 3

True Crime: Streets of LA leans harder on optimization: Branching missions and upgrade routes learnable

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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True Crime: Streets of LA

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WarioWare D.I.Y.