head to head

Monster Hunter: World cover artvsShadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun cover art

Monster Hunter: WorldvsShadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun

Monster Hunter: World leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION8 /10
Monster Hunter: WorldShadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 6

Monster Hunter: World leans harder on execution: Deliberate weapon timing against huge movesets

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization8 vs 8

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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Monster Hunter: World

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Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun