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Haiku, the RobotvsRatchet & Clank: Rift Apart

Haiku, the Robot leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Haiku, the RobotRatchet & Clank: Rift Apart

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 5

Haiku, the Robot leans harder on execution: Hollow Knight-style slash-and-dodge combat

Reads1 vs 0

Haiku, the Robot leans harder on reads: Scripted mechanical enemies

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

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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