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A Plague Tale: Innocence cover artvsStill Wakes the Deep cover art

A Plague Tale: InnocencevsStill Wakes the Deep

A Plague Tale: Innocence leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Still Wakes the Deep leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
A Plague Tale: InnocenceStill Wakes the Deep

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 3

A Plague Tale: Innocence leans harder on execution: Stealth and sling aiming need basic skill.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 3

Still Wakes the Deep leans harder on variance: Creature patrol windows and some object locations are unknown first run

Optimization5 vs 5

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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A Plague Tale: Innocence

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Still Wakes the Deep