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Alice: Madness Returns cover artvsPrince of Persia: Rival Swords cover art

Alice: Madness ReturnsvsPrince of Persia: Rival Swords

Alice: Madness Returns leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Prince of Persia: Rival Swords leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Alice: Madness ReturnsPrince of Persia: Rival Swords

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 6

Prince of Persia: Rival Swords leans harder on execution: Wall-runs, jump chains and combat timing carry the game

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

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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Prince of Persia: Rival Swords