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Lost Soul Aside cover artvsMetal Gear Rising: Revengeance cover art

Lost Soul AsidevsMetal Gear Rising: Revengeance

Lost Soul Aside leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION8 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Lost Soul AsideMetal Gear Rising: Revengeance

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 8

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 0

Lost Soul Aside leans harder on reads: Bosses run fixed movesets, not adapting minds

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 6

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance leans harder on optimization: learning movesets and upgrade priorities

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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