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An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire cover artvsThe Witcher 3: Wild Hunt cover art

An Elder Scrolls Legend: BattlespirevsThe Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
An Elder Scrolls Legend: BattlespireThe Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 4

An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire leans harder on execution: First-person melee and dodging carry the dungeon fights

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 2

An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire leans harder on variance: Level layouts and traps are scripted-but-unknown first time

Optimization6 vs 6

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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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt