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King Arthur II: The Role-Playing Wargame cover artvsPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door cover art

King Arthur II: The Role-Playing WargamevsPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

King Arthur II: The Role-Playing Wargame leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION2 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION8 /10
King Arthur II: The Role-Playing WargamePaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Axis by axis

Execution2 vs 3

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door leans harder on execution: Action commands and stylish moves

Reads2 vs 2

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization8 vs 7

King Arthur II: The Role-Playing Wargame leans harder on optimization: Army composition, hero builds and battle planning decide wins

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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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door