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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance cover artvsNinja Gaiden II Black cover art

Metal Gear Rising: RevengeancevsNinja Gaiden II Black

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Ninja Gaiden II Black leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Metal Gear Rising: RevengeanceNinja Gaiden II Black

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 9

Ninja Gaiden II Black leans harder on execution: Frame-tight blocking, dodging and combo routing define survival

Reads0 vs 1

Ninja Gaiden II Black leans harder on reads: Aggressive enemies still run scripted, learnable behaviour

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

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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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

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Ninja Gaiden II Black