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Ghoul Patrol leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); The Last of Us leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 5

Ghoul Patrol leans harder on execution: Aiming and dodging enemies under ammo pressure

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 2

Ghoul Patrol leans harder on variance: Some spawn and item randomness

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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