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Hylics leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Silent Hill 2 (2001) leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION2 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Execution2 vs 3

Silent Hill 2 (2001) leans harder on execution: Clunky combat is intentional; survival over precision

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 6

Silent Hill 2 (2001) leans harder on optimization: Puzzle solutions, route knowledge and weapon use are fully learnable

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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