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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance cover artvsPatapon 2 cover art

Metal Gear Rising: RevengeancevsPatapon 2

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Patapon 2 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Metal Gear Rising: RevengeancePatapon 2

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 8

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

Patapon 2 leans harder on variance: some loot and encounter randomness

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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Patapon 2