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Shadow the Hedgehog cover artvsShellshock 2: Blood Trails cover art

Shadow the HedgehogvsShellshock 2: Blood Trails

Shadow the Hedgehog leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Shellshock 2: Blood Trails leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Shadow the HedgehogShellshock 2: Blood Trails

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 6

Shellshock 2: Blood Trails leans harder on execution: Aim and reaction to ambushes is all the game asks

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 3

Shadow the Hedgehog leans harder on optimization: Routing mission paths for endings and ranks is the meta

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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