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Resident Evil 4 VR cover artvsSuper Metroid cover art

Resident Evil 4 VRvsSuper Metroid

Resident Evil 4 VR leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Super Metroid leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Resident Evil 4 VRSuper Metroid

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 1

Resident Evil 4 VR leans harder on variance: Encounters and drops are fixed once the campaign is known

Optimization6 vs 7

Super Metroid leans harder on optimization: Sequence-breaking route optimisation is the enduring meta-game

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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