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Fable III cover artvsSamurai Warriors 4-II cover art

Fable IIIvsSamurai Warriors 4-II

Fable III leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Samurai Warriors 4-II leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION3 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Fable IIISamurai Warriors 4-II

Axis by axis

Execution3 vs 4

Samurai Warriors 4-II leans harder on execution: Combo strings and dodges matter but crowds barely fight back

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

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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