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Knights of Pen and Paper II cover artvsThis Is the Police cover art

Knights of Pen and Paper IIvsThis Is the Police

Knights of Pen and Paper II leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); This Is the Police leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION0 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Knights of Pen and Paper IIThis Is the Police

Axis by axis

Execution0 vs 1

This Is the Police leans harder on execution: Menu-driven dispatching, no dexterity

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance4 vs 4

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization7 vs 7

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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Knights of Pen and Paper II

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This Is the Police