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Alan Wake Remastered cover artvsRetrowave cover art

Alan Wake RemasteredvsRetrowave

Alan Wake Remastered leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Retrowave leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
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Execution4 vs 5

Retrowave leans harder on execution: Weaving through highway traffic at speed is the whole skill

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization3 vs 2

Alan Wake Remastered leans harder on optimization: resource management lightly solvable

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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