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Persona 5 cover artvsWizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land cover art

Persona 5vsWizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land

Persona 5 leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION8 /10
Persona 5Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land

Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 2

Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land leans harder on execution: turn-based menu combat, no physical skill

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 4

Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land leans harder on variance: random encounters, loot and hit-chance rolls

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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