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LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures cover artvsValiant Hearts: The Great War cover art

LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original AdventuresvsValiant Hearts: The Great War

LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Valiant Hearts: The Great War leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION2 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original AdventuresValiant Hearts: The Great War

Axis by axis

Execution2 vs 1

LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures leans harder on execution: Whip swings and brawls, very forgiving

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 4

LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures leans harder on optimization: Item and character gating across replayable levels

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 Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures

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Valiant Hearts: The Great War