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Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition cover artvsFire Emblem: Awakening cover art

Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced EditionvsFire Emblem: Awakening

Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Fire Emblem: Awakening leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION1 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE5 /10OPTIMIZATION8 /10
Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced EditionFire Emblem: Awakening

Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 2

Fire Emblem: Awakening leans harder on execution: No twitch elements; pair-up placement is the only spatial decision under time

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance5 vs 5

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization8 vs 8

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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