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Murdered: Soul Suspect cover artvsSilent Hill: The Short Message cover art

Murdered: Soul SuspectvsSilent Hill: The Short Message

Murdered: Soul Suspect leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Silent Hill: The Short Message leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Murdered: Soul SuspectSilent Hill: The Short Message

Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 2

Silent Hill: The Short Message leans harder on execution: Brief chase sequences are the only motor demand

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 4

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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Murdered: Soul Suspect

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Silent Hill: The Short Message