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God of War IIvsWario Land: Shake It!

God of War II leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Wario Land: Shake It! leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
God of War IIWario Land: Shake It!

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 6

God of War II leans harder on execution: Faster combat and harder bosses demand sharper hands

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 6

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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God of War II

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