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Alice: Madness ReturnsvsGod of War (2005)

Alice: Madness Returns leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); God of War (2005) leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Alice: Madness ReturnsGod of War (2005)

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 6

God of War (2005) leans harder on execution: Blade combos, parries, and QTEs reward clean inputs

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 6

God of War (2005) leans harder on optimization: Orb economy, magic priorities, and boss patterns are 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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