Building comparison
head to head
Banishers: Ghosts of New EdenvsBioShock 2
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is variance, and it is a single point.
Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Execution · Practiced Mastery
Moderate action combat wrapped around weighty authored choices.
BioShock 2
Execution · Practiced Mastery
Big Daddy POV return to Rapture with tighter combat systems.
Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); BioShock 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Banishers: Ghosts of New EdenBioShock 2
Axis by axis
Execution5 vs 5
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Dodge and swap timing in action combat is moderate
BioShock 2
Dual-wield drill and gun timing matter.
Reads1 vs 1
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Spectral enemies follow fixed attack patterns
BioShock 2
Splicer AI scripted, not adaptive.
Variance1 vs 2
BioShock 2 leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Haunting cases are authored, not randomised
BioShock 2
Sister-gathering waves add randomness.
Optimization5 vs 5
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Gear upgrades, character swapping and decision routes are learnable
BioShock 2
Plasmid combos and gear loadouts solvable.
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.