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Deadly Premonition: Director's Cut cover artvsDetroit: Become Human cover art

Deadly Premonition: Director's CutvsDetroit: Become Human

Deadly Premonition: Director's Cut leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Detroit: Become Human leans Optimization (Light / Casual).

EXECUTION3 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Deadly Premonition: Director's CutDetroit: Become Human

Axis by axis

Execution3 vs 2

Deadly Premonition: Director's Cut leans harder on execution: Clunky shooting against slow enemies asks very little

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 3

Deadly Premonition: Director's Cut leans harder on optimization: Town schedules and side-quest timing reward light planning

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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Detroit: Become Human