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Alice: Madness Returns cover artvsFinal Fight cover art

Alice: Madness ReturnsvsFinal Fight

Alice: Madness Returns leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Final Fight leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Alice: Madness ReturnsFinal Fight

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 6

Final Fight leans harder on execution: Crowd-control timing and throw spacing

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

Final Fight leans harder on variance: Minor enemy placement randomness

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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Alice: Madness Returns

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