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Resident Evil 7: Biohazard cover artvsThief Gold cover art

Resident Evil 7: BiohazardvsThief Gold

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Thief Gold leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION5 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Resident Evil 7: BiohazardThief Gold

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 4

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard leans harder on execution: First-person aiming and blocking under Molded pressure matters

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 4

Thief Gold leans harder on variance: Unscripted patrols and unknown layouts hide information first time through

Optimization7 vs 7

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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Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

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Thief Gold