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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom PainvsSalt and Sacrifice

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Salt and Sacrifice leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 6

Salt and Sacrifice leans harder on execution: Timing-based 2D Souls combat

Reads2 vs 2

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

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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