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Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit cover artvsL.A. Noire cover art

Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the PitvsL.A. Noire

Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit leans Variance (Systems & Chaos); L.A. Noire leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION3 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE5 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution3 vs 2

Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit leans harder on execution: Hiding and fleeing need timing but stay forgiving

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance5 vs 4

Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit leans harder on variance: Pursuer behaviour and clue locations are hidden until learned

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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