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LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga cover artvsMonsters, Inc. cover art

LEGO Star Wars: The Complete SagavsMonsters, Inc.

LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Monsters, Inc. leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION3 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
LEGO Star Wars: The Complete SagaMonsters, Inc.

Axis by axis

Execution3 vs 4

Monsters, Inc. leans harder on execution: Basic jumps and dodges tuned for younger players

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 Star Wars: The Complete Saga leans harder on optimization: Completion routing, stud multipliers and unlock order

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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