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Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express cover artvsAnimal Crossing: New Horizons cover art

Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient ExpressvsAnimal Crossing: New Horizons

Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Animal Crossing: New Horizons leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION0 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient ExpressAnimal Crossing: New Horizons

Axis by axis

Execution0 vs 1

Animal Crossing: New Horizons leans harder on execution: Trivial inputs.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 6

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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Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons