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Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut EditionvsSpyro the Dragon

Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Spyro the Dragon leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 5

Spyro the Dragon leans harder on execution: Gliding and charging need modest precision at most

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 4

Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition leans harder on optimization: Learning guard routes and assassination approaches is the game

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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