head to head

Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus cover artvsOri and the Blind Forest cover art

Bō: Path of the Teal LotusvsOri and the Blind Forest

Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Ori and the Blind Forest leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION7 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Bō: Path of the Teal LotusOri and the Blind Forest

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 4

Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus leans harder on optimization: Learning movesets and routing upgrades is the meta-layer

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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Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus

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Ori and the Blind Forest