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Bayonetta 3 cover artvsMetal Gear Rising: Revengeance cover art

Bayonetta 3vsMetal Gear Rising: Revengeance

Bayonetta 3 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION9 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Bayonetta 3Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

Axis by axis

Execution9 vs 8

Bayonetta 3 leans harder on execution: Demon Slave juggling atop precise dodge play

Reads1 vs 0

Bayonetta 3 leans harder on reads: Homunculi follow fixed attack scripts

Variance1 vs 1

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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