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Angry Birds Blast! cover artvsBaldur's Gate cover art

Angry Birds Blast!vsBaldur's Gate

Angry Birds Blast! leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Baldur's Gate leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE5 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 2

Baldur's Gate leans harder on execution: Pause-and-play needs minimal dexterity.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance5 vs 5

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization7 vs 8

Baldur's Gate leans harder on optimization: Party builds and encounter prep 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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