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Haunting Starring Polterguy cover artvsPony Island cover art

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Haunting Starring Polterguy leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Pony Island leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
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Execution4 vs 3

Haunting Starring Polterguy leans harder on execution: Positioning and ectoplasm management need only modest dexterity

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 5

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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