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CastlevaniavsGod of War

Castlevania leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); God of War leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
CastlevaniaGod of War

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 7

Castlevania leans harder on execution: Stiff jumps and whip timing punish mistakes

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

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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Castlevania

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