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Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster cover artvsDragon's Dogma cover art

Dead Rising Deluxe RemastervsDragon's Dogma

Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Dragon's Dogma leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION8 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization8 vs 7

Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster leans harder on optimization: The 72-hour schedule makes routing and time management the real game

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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