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The Mysterious Murasame Castle cover artvsWolfenstein II: The New Colossus cover art

The Mysterious Murasame CastlevsWolfenstein II: The New Colossus

The Mysterious Murasame Castle leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
The Mysterious Murasame CastleWolfenstein II: The New Colossus

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 7

The Mysterious Murasame Castle leans harder on execution: Fast sword and shuriken combat against swarms is the core

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 1

The Mysterious Murasame Castle leans harder on variance: Fixed level layouts with minor spawn variation

Optimization4 vs 4

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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