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Gran Turismo 5 Prologue cover artvsSekiro: Shadows Die Twice cover art

Gran Turismo 5 ProloguevsSekiro: Shadows Die Twice

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION8 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Gran Turismo 5 PrologueSekiro: Shadows Die Twice

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 9

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice leans harder on execution: Frame-perfect parries are the entire combat system.

Reads2 vs 2

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 0

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue leans harder on variance: Tracks and physics are fixed and fully knowable

Optimization7 vs 7

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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Gran Turismo 5 Prologue

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Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice