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Dino Crisis cover artvsThe Legend of Zelda cover art

Dino CrisisvsThe Legend of Zelda

Dino Crisis leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); The Legend of Zelda leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Dino CrisisThe Legend of Zelda

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 5

The Legend of Zelda leans harder on execution: Tight sword-poking against aggressive enemies

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance4 vs 3

Dino Crisis leans harder on variance: Ambush placements and item locations are unknown first time

Optimization7 vs 7

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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