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Guacamelee! 2 cover artvsShadow Warrior cover art

Guacamelee! 2vsShadow Warrior

Guacamelee! 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Shadow Warrior leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Guacamelee! 2Shadow Warrior

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 1

Shadow Warrior leans harder on reads: Multiplayer existed but enemies are scripted spawns

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 5

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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