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Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots cover artvsWe Love Katamari cover art

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the PatriotsvsWe Love Katamari

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); We Love Katamari leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the PatriotsWe Love Katamari

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 1

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots leans harder on variance: mid-battle chaos mostly cosmetic

Optimization6 vs 7

We Love Katamari leans harder on optimization: Size-growth routing is the score-attack core.

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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