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Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright cover artvsPanzer General cover art

Fire Emblem Fates: BirthrightvsPanzer General

Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Panzer General leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION1 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION9 /10
Fire Emblem Fates: BirthrightPanzer General

Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 0

Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright leans harder on execution: no real-time physical skill, turn-based

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance4 vs 4

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization9 vs 8

Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright leans harder on optimization: permadeath tactics and builds near-solvable

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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