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Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Warriors Orochi 3 leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 4

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 7

Warriors Orochi 3 leans harder on optimization: Team synergy building from a 130+ roster is the deep layer

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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