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999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors cover artvsEmio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club cover art

999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine DoorsvsEmio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club

999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION0 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine DoorsEmio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club

Axis by axis

Execution0 vs 0

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance4 vs 4

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 5

999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors leans harder on optimization: Escape-room puzzles and route flowchart are fully solvable

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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999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors

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Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club