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Enslaved: Odyssey to the West cover artvsThe Liar Princess and the Blind Prince cover art

Enslaved: Odyssey to the WestvsThe Liar Princess and the Blind Prince

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Enslaved: Odyssey to the WestThe Liar Princess and the Blind Prince

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 3

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West leans harder on execution: Forgiving combat and automated climbing

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 6

The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince leans harder on optimization: Guiding the prince past puzzles is a solvable routing problem

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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Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

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The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince