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Hi-Fi RushvsNinja Gaiden II

Hi-Fi Rush leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Ninja Gaiden II leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Hi-Fi RushNinja Gaiden II

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 9

Ninja Gaiden II leans harder on execution: Delimb-and-finish combat at overwhelming pace

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

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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