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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain cover artvsNew Star Soccer 5 cover art

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom PainvsNew Star Soccer 5

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); New Star Soccer 5 leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom PainNew Star Soccer 5

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads2 vs 2

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 4

New Star Soccer 5 leans harder on variance: Match outcomes and life events have randomness

Optimization7 vs 7

Even - both lean on optimization about the same.

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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