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God of War II leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Lunistice leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
God of War IILunistice

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 0

God of War II leans harder on variance: Deterministic encounter design

Optimization6 vs 5

God of War II leans harder on optimization: Magic priorities, upgrades, and boss patterns are learnable

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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