head to head

Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club cover artvsThe Council cover art

Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective ClubvsThe Council

Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); The Council leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION0 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective ClubThe Council

Axis by axis

Execution0 vs 0

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 1

The Council leans harder on reads: NPCs have vulnerabilities and immunities, but fully scripted.

Variance4 vs 4

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 5

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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