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LEGO Harry Potter Collection: Years 1-4 cover artvsMad Max cover art

LEGO Harry Potter Collection: Years 1-4vsMad Max

LEGO Harry Potter Collection: Years 1-4 leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Mad Max leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION3 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
LEGO Harry Potter Collection: Years 1-4Mad Max

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Execution3 vs 4

Mad Max leans harder on execution: Car combat and counter-brawling timing

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 5

LEGO Harry Potter Collection: Years 1-4 leans harder on optimization: Collectible completion and character-ability routing is the real game

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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LEGO Harry Potter Collection: Years 1-4

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