Building comparison
head to head
BullyvsLuigi's Mansion 3
Neither is harder. They score identically on all four axes, so the difference between them is in kind, not degree.
Bully
Optimization · Practiced Mastery
Rockstar's open-world schoolyard adventure about surviving a corrupt boarding school.
Luigi's Mansion 3
Optimization · Practiced Mastery
Haunted-hotel adventure climbing themed floors with vacuum and goo clone.
Bully leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Luigi's Mansion 3 leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
BullyLuigi's Mansion 3
Axis by axis
Execution4 vs 4
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Bully
Brawling and minigames take modest reflexes
Luigi's Mansion 3
Slam combos and boss-dodge timing
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Bully
Schoolyard AI is scripted
Luigi's Mansion 3
Floor bosses run fixed scripts
Variance1 vs 1
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Bully
Open world is largely deterministic
Luigi's Mansion 3
Hotel floors are authored
Optimization5 vs 5
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Bully
Class minigames, schedules, and mission routing reward planning
Luigi's Mansion 3
Gooigi puzzles and gem routes are solvable
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.