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Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); SuperHot leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION8 /10
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Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 0

Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops leans harder on reads: Guards run fixed patrol scripts.

Variance3 vs 2

Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops leans harder on variance: Soldier recruitment and patrol layouts add some unknowns.

Optimization8 vs 7

Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops leans harder on optimization: Squad recruitment and mission routing are solvable systems.

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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