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Assassin's Creed Syndicate cover artvsLEGO Harry Potter Collection: Years 1-4 cover art

Assassin's Creed SyndicatevsLEGO Harry Potter Collection: Years 1-4

Assassin's Creed Syndicate leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); LEGO Harry Potter Collection: Years 1-4 leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Assassin's Creed SyndicateLEGO Harry Potter Collection: Years 1-4

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 3

Assassin's Creed Syndicate leans harder on execution: Rope-launcher traversal and simple brawling

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

LEGO Harry Potter Collection: Years 1-4 leans harder on optimization: Collectible completion and character-ability routing is the real 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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LEGO Harry Potter Collection: Years 1-4