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DeadCorevsKatana ZERO

DeadCore leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Katana ZERO leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE0 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
DeadCoreKatana ZERO

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 8

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance0 vs 1

Katana ZERO leans harder on variance: Rooms are identical on every attempt

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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