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Haunting Starring Polterguy cover artvsPokémon Snap cover art

Haunting Starring PolterguyvsPokémon Snap

Haunting Starring Polterguy leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Pokémon Snap leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Haunting Starring PolterguyPokémon Snap

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.

Variance3 vs 2

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

Optimization6 vs 7

Pokémon Snap leans harder on optimization: Triggering rare poses is route knowledge

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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