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Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor cover artvsPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door cover art

Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth DrannorvsPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION3 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION8 /10
Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth DrannorPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Axis by axis

Execution3 vs 3

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 2

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door leans harder on reads: Scripted enemy AI

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization8 vs 7

Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor leans harder on optimization: Party building, spell management and dungeon mapping lead

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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Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor

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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door