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DREDGE leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION2 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
DREDGEFatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water

Axis by axis

Execution2 vs 3

Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water leans harder on execution: Camera Obscura shutter timing and framing under pressure

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance4 vs 5

Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water leans harder on variance: Unknown ghost spawns and routes until mapped on repeat runs

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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