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Hotel Dusk: Room 215vsSam & Max: Beyond Time and Space
Hotel Dusk: Room 215 leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Hotel Dusk: Room 215Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space
Axis by axis
Execution1 vs 0
Hotel Dusk: Room 215 leans harder on execution: Stylus puzzles need negligible dexterity
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 1
Hotel Dusk: Room 215 leans harder on variance: Story info hidden until questioned out
Optimization5 vs 5
Even - both lean on optimization about the same.
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.