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Exanima leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Tales of Berseria leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 2

Exanima leans harder on variance: Unknown dungeon layouts and loot on first descent

Optimization5 vs 6

Tales of Berseria leans harder on optimization: Soul Gauge and Break Soul management form the optimisation layer

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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