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Rule of RosevsThe Last Guardian

Rule of Rose leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); The Last Guardian leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION3 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Rule of RoseThe Last Guardian

Axis by axis

Execution3 vs 2

Rule of Rose leans harder on execution: Clunky combat poses a modest physical bar

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

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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