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Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice cover artvsManual Samuel cover art

Hellblade: Senua's SacrificevsManual Samuel

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Manual Samuel leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
Hellblade: Senua's SacrificeManual Samuel

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 6

Manual Samuel leans harder on execution: Manually juggling breathing, blinking and walking IS the comedy challenge

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization3 vs 3

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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