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About Love, Hate and the other ones cover artvsMonkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge cover art

About Love, Hate and the other onesvsMonkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge

About Love, Hate and the other ones leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION2 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION8 /10
About Love, Hate and the other onesMonkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge

Axis by axis

Execution2 vs 1

About Love, Hate and the other ones leans harder on execution: Minor timing on character movement, never twitch-defining

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge leans harder on variance: Some item locations are initially hidden but deterministic

Optimization8 vs 8

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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Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge