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Persona 5 cover artvsThe Bard's Tale IV cover art

Persona 5vsThe Bard's Tale IV

Persona 5 leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); The Bard's Tale IV leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION8 /10
Persona 5The Bard's Tale IV

Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 2

The Bard's Tale IV leans harder on execution: grid-based combat needs little manual skill

Reads0 vs 0

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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Persona 5

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The Bard's Tale IV