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Tenchu: Stealth Assassins cover artvsThe Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past cover art

Tenchu: Stealth AssassinsvsThe Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

Tenchu: Stealth Assassins leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Tenchu: Stealth AssassinsThe Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 4

Tenchu: Stealth Assassins leans harder on execution: Grapple movement and stealth-kill timing

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

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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Tenchu: Stealth Assassins

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The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past