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Grand Theft Auto III leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Haunting Starring Polterguy leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 4

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 3

Haunting Starring Polterguy leans harder on variance: Which objects scare best is unknown until experimented

Optimization5 vs 6

Haunting Starring Polterguy leans harder on optimization: Mapping fright items and ectoplasm economy solves each house

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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