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Metal Gear Rising: RevengeancevsThe World's Hardest Game

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); The World's Hardest Game leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Metal Gear Rising: RevengeanceThe World's Hardest Game

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 0

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance leans harder on variance: deterministic encounters

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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