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Marvel: Ultimate Alliance cover artvsThe Elder Scrolls: Blades cover art

Marvel: Ultimate AlliancevsThe Elder Scrolls: Blades

Marvel: Ultimate Alliance leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); The Elder Scrolls: Blades leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Marvel: Ultimate AllianceThe Elder Scrolls: Blades

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 3

Marvel: Ultimate Alliance leans harder on execution: brawling and dodge timing are forgiving

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 3

The Elder Scrolls: Blades leans harder on variance: Chest rolls and loot RNG gate progression

Optimization6 vs 6

Even - both lean on optimization about the same.

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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Marvel: Ultimate Alliance

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The Elder Scrolls: Blades