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Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories cover artvsL.A. Noire cover art

Disaster Report 4: Summer MemoriesvsL.A. Noire

Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); L.A. Noire leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION2 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution2 vs 2

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 4

L.A. Noire leans harder on variance: Interrogation tells and clues hidden until discovered

Optimization4 vs 5

L.A. Noire leans harder on optimization: Evidence chains and question choices have fixed correct answers

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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