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Golden AxevsSchool Girl/Zombie Hunter

Golden Axe leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); School Girl/Zombie Hunter leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Golden AxeSchool Girl/Zombie Hunter

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 6

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 3

School Girl/Zombie Hunter leans harder on variance: Spawn waves and item drops add randomness

Optimization5 vs 4

Golden Axe leans harder on optimization: Wave patterns and magic usage are fully 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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