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Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown cover artvsMount Your Friends cover art

Ace Combat 7: Skies UnknownvsMount Your Friends

Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Mount Your Friends leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION7 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 8

Mount Your Friends leans harder on execution: QWOP-like limb control under a timer is the entire challenge

Reads2 vs 2

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 3

Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown leans harder on optimization: Aircraft tree and loadout routing matter

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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