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Batman: Arkham CityvsBleach: Soul Resurrección

Batman: Arkham City leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Bleach: Soul Resurrección leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 0

Batman: Arkham City leans harder on reads: Enemies scripted, not adaptive.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 4

Batman: Arkham City leans harder on optimization: Gadget combos and challenge maps learnable.

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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Bleach: Soul Resurrección