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Assassin's Creed IIvsThe Liar Princess and the Blind Prince

Assassin's Creed II leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Assassin's Creed IIThe Liar Princess and the Blind Prince

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 3

Assassin's Creed II leans harder on execution: Counter-heavy combat stays forgiving

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

The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince leans harder on optimization: Guiding the prince past puzzles is a solvable routing problem

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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