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Bayonetta cover artvsGod of War cover art

BayonettavsGod of War

Bayonetta leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); God of War leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION9 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
BayonettaGod of War

Axis by axis

Execution9 vs 7

Bayonetta leans harder on execution: Witch Time dodges and long combo strings

Reads1 vs 0

Bayonetta leans harder on reads: Angels are scripted, never adaptive

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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Bayonetta

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God of War