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Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn cover artvsHyper Light Drifter cover art

Flintlock: The Siege of DawnvsHyper Light Drifter

Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Hyper Light Drifter leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Flintlock: The Siege of DawnHyper Light Drifter

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 2

Hyper Light Drifter leans harder on reads: Scripted bosses with patterns

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 5

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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Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn

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Hyper Light Drifter