head to head
vs
Frozen Free Fall: Snowball FightvsL.A. Noire
Frozen Free Fall: Snowball Fight leans Variance (Systems & Chaos); L.A. Noire leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).
Frozen Free Fall: Snowball FightL.A. Noire
Axis by axis
Execution2 vs 2
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance5 vs 4
Frozen Free Fall: Snowball Fight leans harder on variance: Random tile drops decide whether plans come together
Optimization4 vs 5
L.A. Noire leans harder on optimization: Evidence chains and question choices have fixed correct answers
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.