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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance cover artvsStealth Inc: A Clone in the Dark cover art

Metal Gear Rising: RevengeancevsStealth Inc: A Clone in the Dark

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Stealth Inc: A Clone in the Dark leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Metal Gear Rising: RevengeanceStealth Inc: A Clone in the Dark

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 7

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance leans harder on execution: parry timing and blade-mode cuts demand sharp reactions

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 7

Stealth Inc: A Clone in the Dark leans harder on optimization: Optimal speedrun routes through each chamber are solvable

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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Stealth Inc: A Clone in the Dark