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Freddi Fish and The Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds cover artvsTales of Monkey Island cover art

Freddi Fish and The Case of the Missing Kelp SeedsvsTales of Monkey Island

Freddi Fish and The Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Tales of Monkey Island leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION0 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution0 vs 0

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 5

Tales of Monkey Island leans harder on optimization: Episodic inventory puzzles each have one intended solution.

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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Freddi Fish and The Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds

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Tales of Monkey Island