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Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over MystaravsMonster Hunter: World

Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Monster Hunter: World leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 7

Monster Hunter: World leans harder on execution: Deliberate weapon timing against huge movesets

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization7 vs 8

Monster Hunter: World leans harder on optimization: Knowing the monster and building counters is the game

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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