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Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch TreevsZelda II: The Adventure of Link
Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Zelda II: The Adventure of Link leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch TreeZelda II: The Adventure of Link
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 7
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads1 vs 1
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 1
Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree leans harder on variance: Minor randomness in drops and encounters
Optimization7 vs 6
Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree leans harder on optimization: Learning movesets and building characters is the meta
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.