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LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 cover artvsPikuniku cover art

LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7vsPikuniku

LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Pikuniku leans Execution (Light / Casual).

EXECUTION2 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7Pikuniku

Axis by axis

Execution2 vs 3

Pikuniku leans harder on execution: Floppy kicks and hops, gently imprecise

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 3

LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 leans harder on optimization: Spell-gated collectible routing is the real activity

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: Years 5-7

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