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Tales of Berseria leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Undertale Yellow leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 0

Tales of Berseria leans harder on reads: All enemies use fixed attack scripts; no adaptive component

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 5

Tales of Berseria leans harder on optimization: Soul Gauge and Break Soul management form the optimisation layer

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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