head to head
vs
Lamplight CityvsTales of Monkey Island
Lamplight City leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Tales of Monkey Island leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Lamplight CityTales of Monkey Island
Axis by axis
Execution1 vs 0
Lamplight City leans harder on execution: Point-and-click investigation, nothing physical
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance3 vs 2
Lamplight City leans harder on variance: Whodunits are hidden information until evidence surfaces
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.