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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning cover artvsSalt and Sanctuary cover art

Kingdoms of Amalur: ReckoningvsSalt and Sanctuary

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Salt and Sanctuary leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Kingdoms of Amalur: ReckoningSalt and Sanctuary

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 6

Salt and Sanctuary leans harder on execution: Souls-like timing in 2D

Reads1 vs 2

Salt and Sanctuary leans harder on reads: Scripted bosses with telegraphs

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization7 vs 7

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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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

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Salt and Sanctuary