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A Virus Named Tom cover artvsDragon Age: The Veilguard cover art

A Virus Named TomvsDragon Age: The Veilguard

A Virus Named Tom leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Dragon Age: The Veilguard leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
A Virus Named TomDragon Age: The Veilguard

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 4

A Virus Named Tom leans harder on execution: Dodging anti-virus drones while rotating tiles under pressure

Reads0 vs 1

Dragon Age: The Veilguard leans harder on reads: Scripted bosses, no adaptive opponents

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization7 vs 7

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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