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13 Sentinels: Aegis RimvsGood Pizza, Great Pizza

13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Good Pizza, Great Pizza leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION2 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
13 Sentinels: Aegis RimGood Pizza, Great Pizza

Axis by axis

Execution2 vs 3

Good Pizza, Great Pizza leans harder on execution: Assembling orders quickly matters but stays forgiving

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 5

13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim leans harder on optimization: Optimising battle chip builds and unlocking all story segments is the mechanical layer

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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Good Pizza, Great Pizza