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Fire Emblem: Three Houses cover artvsVictoria II cover art

Fire Emblem: Three HousesvsVictoria II

Fire Emblem: Three Houses leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Victoria II leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION1 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION9 /10
Fire Emblem: Three HousesVictoria II

Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 1

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 2

Fire Emblem: Three Houses leans harder on variance: Hit rates and crit RNG affect runs

Optimization9 vs 9

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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Fire Emblem: Three Houses

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Victoria II