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Soul Sacrifice cover artvsZelda II: The Adventure of Link cover art

Soul SacrificevsZelda II: The Adventure of Link

Soul Sacrifice leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Zelda II: The Adventure of Link leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 1

Soul Sacrifice leans harder on variance: Offering drops and fusion rolls

Optimization7 vs 6

Soul Sacrifice leans harder on optimization: Save-or-sacrifice economy and loadout fusion are deep solvable systems

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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Zelda II: The Adventure of Link