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Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons cover artvsBully: Scholarship Edition cover art

Brothers: A Tale of Two SonsvsBully: Scholarship Edition

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Bully: Scholarship Edition leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION3 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE0 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Brothers: A Tale of Two SonsBully: Scholarship Edition

Axis by axis

Execution3 vs 4

Bully: Scholarship Edition leans harder on execution: Brawling and class mini-games need light dexterity

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance0 vs 1

Bully: Scholarship Edition leans harder on variance: Little randomness in the authored school world

Optimization4 vs 4

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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Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

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Bully: Scholarship Edition