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Fire Emblem Heroes cover artvsPoker Night 2 cover art

Fire Emblem HeroesvsPoker Night 2

Fire Emblem Heroes leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Poker Night 2 leans Variance (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION1 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE5 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Fire Emblem HeroesPoker Night 2

Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 0

Fire Emblem Heroes leans harder on execution: Drag-and-drop tactics need no dexterity

Reads2 vs 2

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance5 vs 7

Poker Night 2 leans harder on variance: Card luck dominates individual hands as in any poker.

Optimization7 vs 6

Fire Emblem Heroes leans harder on optimization: Skill inheritance, team building and tile math are deeply 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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Fire Emblem Heroes

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