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Dragon Age: Origins cover artvsXenoblade Chronicles 2 cover art

Dragon Age: OriginsvsXenoblade Chronicles 2

Dragon Age: Origins leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Xenoblade Chronicles 2 leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION2 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION8 /10
Dragon Age: OriginsXenoblade Chronicles 2

Axis by axis

Execution2 vs 3

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 leans harder on execution: Auto-attack with art-timing inputs

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 4

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 leans harder on variance: Blade gacha and crit rolls

Optimization8 vs 8

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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Dragon Age: Origins

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Xenoblade Chronicles 2