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L.A. Noire cover artvsPokémon Rumble World cover art

L.A. NoirevsPokémon Rumble World

L.A. Noire leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Pokémon Rumble World leans Variance (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION2 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
L.A. NoirePokémon Rumble World

Axis by axis

Execution2 vs 3

Pokémon Rumble World leans harder on execution: Mashing two moves through toy hordes needs little precision

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance4 vs 4

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 4

L.A. Noire leans harder on optimization: Evidence chains and question choices have fixed correct answers

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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