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LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga cover artvsThe Big Con cover art

LEGO Star Wars: The Complete SagavsThe Big Con

LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); The Big Con leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION3 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
LEGO Star Wars: The Complete SagaThe Big Con

Axis by axis

Execution3 vs 2

LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga leans harder on execution: Simple combat and jumps, death barely punished

Reads0 vs 1

The Big Con leans harder on reads: NPCs scripted, no adaptive opponent

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

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.

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LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga

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