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Dark Arcana: The Carnival cover artvsThe Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition cover art

Dark Arcana: The CarnivalvsThe Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition

Dark Arcana: The Carnival leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Dark Arcana: The CarnivalThe Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition

Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 0

Dark Arcana: The Carnival leans harder on execution: Clicking hidden objects needs no dexterity

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 6

The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition leans harder on optimization: Once solutions are known the game is fully solved

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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Dark Arcana: The Carnival

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The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition