Building comparison
head to head
Hong Kong 97vsPostal
Postal asks more than Hong Kong 97, and the gap is optimization.
Hong Kong 97
Execution · Twitch Chaos
A notoriously broken shooter testing nothing but tolerance and basic bullet dodging.
Postal
Execution · Practiced Mastery
An early top-down rampage shooter with simple execution demands.
Hong Kong 97 leans Execution (Twitch Chaos); Postal leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Hong Kong 97Postal
Axis by axis
Execution4 vs 4
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Hong Kong 97
Dodging bullet spam with one-hit deaths is the only skill present
Postal
top-down shooting and movement
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Hong Kong 97
Enemies spawn in mindless waves
Postal
enemies use fixed aggressive scripts
Variance2 vs 2
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Hong Kong 97
Spawn patterns have slight randomness
Postal
enemy spawn and pathing randomness
Optimization1 vs 3
Postal leans clearly harder on optimization.
Hong Kong 97
There is almost no system to optimise
Postal
weapon choice and route clearing
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.