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God Eater 2: Rage Burst leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Horizon Forbidden West leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 5

God Eater 2: Rage Burst leans harder on execution: Devour timing, dodges and combo discipline against Aragami.

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization7 vs 6

God Eater 2: Rage Burst leans harder on optimization: Blood Arts, bullet crafting and gear trees dominate.

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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