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Five Nights at Freddy's: Secret of the Mimic leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Party Hard leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION3 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE5 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution3 vs 3

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 0

Five Nights at Freddy's: Secret of the Mimic leans harder on reads: The Mimic is scripted-plus-random, not a genuine adapting mind

Variance5 vs 5

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

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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