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13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim cover artvsAnimal Crossing: New Horizons cover art

13 Sentinels: Aegis RimvsAnimal Crossing: New Horizons

13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Animal Crossing: New Horizons leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION2 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
13 Sentinels: Aegis RimAnimal Crossing: New Horizons

Axis by axis

Execution2 vs 1

13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim leans harder on execution: Real-time strategy battles have light unit-control inputs

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 3

Animal Crossing: New Horizons leans harder on variance: Daily visitors and fossils randomize.

Optimization6 vs 6

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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13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons