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PlanetSide 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Touhou Yumejikuu: Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION7 /10READS4 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 8

Touhou Yumejikuu: Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream leans harder on execution: Split-screen danmaku dodging at speed is the ceiling

Reads4 vs 3

PlanetSide 2 leans harder on reads: Human enemies adapt, diluted across hundreds

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 5

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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