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Disco Elysium: The Final Cut cover artvsThe Legend of Kyrandia 2: The Hand of Fate cover art

Disco Elysium: The Final CutvsThe Legend of Kyrandia 2: The Hand of Fate

Disco Elysium: The Final Cut leans Variance (Systems & Chaos); The Legend of Kyrandia 2: The Hand of Fate leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION0 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE5 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Disco Elysium: The Final CutThe Legend of Kyrandia 2: The Hand of Fate

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Execution0 vs 1

The Legend of Kyrandia 2: The Hand of Fate leans harder on execution: Pointing and clicking has no physical ceiling

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance5 vs 5

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 6

The Legend of Kyrandia 2: The Hand of Fate leans harder on optimization: Once solutions are known the game is a fixed walkthrough

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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Disco Elysium: The Final Cut

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The Legend of Kyrandia 2: The Hand of Fate