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About Love, Hate and the other ones cover artvsThe Secret of Monkey Island cover art

About Love, Hate and the other onesvsThe Secret of Monkey Island

About Love, Hate and the other ones leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); The Secret of Monkey Island leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION2 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION8 /10
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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

The Secret of Monkey Island leans harder on variance: Some hidden items require exploration but solutions are invariant

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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