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Assassin's Creed Rogue cover artvsPaper Mario: Color Splash cover art

Assassin's Creed RoguevsPaper Mario: Color Splash

Assassin's Creed Rogue leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Paper Mario: Color Splash leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION4 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Assassin's Creed RoguePaper Mario: Color Splash

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 3

Assassin's Creed Rogue leans harder on execution: Forgiving parkour and counter-heavy combat ask little

Reads1 vs 0

Assassin's Creed Rogue leans harder on reads: Stalker assassins ambush by script, not adaptation

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

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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Paper Mario: Color Splash