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Metal Gear Rising: RevengeancevsNinja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Metal Gear Rising: RevengeanceNinja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 8

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 1

Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge leans harder on reads: Scripted enemy waves

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 5

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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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

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Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge