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Dr. Mario World cover artvsThe Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition cover art

Dr. Mario WorldvsThe Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition

Dr. Mario World leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Dr. Mario WorldThe Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition

Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 0

Dr. Mario World leans harder on execution: Untimed dragging removes the classic twitch element

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance4 vs 3

Dr. Mario World leans harder on variance: Capsule colour order is random within each attempt

Optimization6 vs 6

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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Dr. Mario World

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The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition