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Alan Wake cover artvsLEGO Harry Potter Collection: Years 5-7 cover art

Alan WakevsLEGO Harry Potter Collection: Years 5-7

Alan Wake leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); LEGO Harry Potter Collection: Years 5-7 leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 3

Alan Wake leans harder on execution: Flashlight-then-shoot timing and dodges

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 1

Alan Wake leans harder on variance: Ambush placements surprise once

Optimization4 vs 4

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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LEGO Harry Potter Collection: Years 5-7