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An independent desk covering computer games through their boss encounters. Every game discussed here is bought at retail with our own funds, as described in the method. Nobody pays for coverage, nobody sees a review before it publishes, and no arrangement exists with any studio or platform that could affect a score.
Frame counts, attempt totals, arena dimensions and named-cause percentages describe what happened on our hardware, on the build we bought, at the moment we played it. Games are patched, hardware differs, and your own results will differ from ours. Treat every number here as evidence for an argument rather than a specification you can rely on.
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