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

