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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning cover artvsTunic cover art

Kingdoms of Amalur: ReckoningvsTunic

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Tunic leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION5 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 1

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning leans harder on variance: Loot rolls add light randomness

Optimization7 vs 8

Tunic leans harder on optimization: Manual decoding and build choices solve everything

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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