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inFamous 2 cover artvsYakuza Kiwami cover art

inFamous 2vsYakuza Kiwami

inFamous 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Yakuza Kiwami leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
inFamous 2Yakuza Kiwami

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 1

Yakuza Kiwami leans harder on reads: Majima ambushes are scripted, not adaptive.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 6

Yakuza Kiwami leans harder on optimization: Style upgrades, heat moves and gear are learnable systems.

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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