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Lunar Knights cover artvsRed Dead Redemption cover art

Lunar KnightsvsRed Dead Redemption

Lunar Knights leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Red Dead Redemption leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Lunar KnightsRed Dead Redemption

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 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 5

Lunar Knights leans harder on optimization: Weapon loadouts, weather management and boss patterns to solve

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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