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Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love cover artvsTales of Monkey Island cover art

Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with LovevsTales of Monkey Island

Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Tales of Monkey Island leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with LoveTales of Monkey Island

Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 0

Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love leans harder on execution: Pointing and clicking through scenes

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 2

Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love leans harder on variance: Puzzle solutions are hidden information until discovered

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.

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Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love

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Tales of Monkey Island