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Dark Souls III cover artvsThe New Tetris cover art

Dark Souls IIIvsThe New Tetris

Dark Souls III leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); The New Tetris leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION8 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Dark Souls IIIThe New Tetris

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 8

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

The New Tetris leans harder on variance: Piece bag is random but bounded and mappable

Optimization7 vs 6

Dark Souls III leans harder on optimization: movesets and builds are fully mappable

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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Dark Souls III

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The New Tetris