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LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens cover artvsValiant Hearts: The Great War cover art

LEGO Star Wars: The Force AwakensvsValiant Hearts: The Great War

LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Valiant Hearts: The Great War leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION2 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
LEGO Star Wars: The Force AwakensValiant Hearts: The Great War

Axis by axis

Execution2 vs 1

LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens leans harder on execution: Blaster battles and platforming stay deliberately forgiving

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 4

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 Force Awakens

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Valiant Hearts: The Great War