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Lost Grimoires 2: Shard of Mystery cover artvsProfessor Layton and the Diabolical Box cover art

Lost Grimoires 2: Shard of MysteryvsProfessor Layton and the Diabolical Box

Lost Grimoires 2: Shard of Mystery leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Lost Grimoires 2: Shard of MysteryProfessor Layton and the Diabolical Box

Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 0

Lost Grimoires 2: Shard of Mystery leans harder on execution: Click-driven with no twitch demands

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 7

Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box leans harder on optimization: Each brainteaser has one clean logical solution to find

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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Lost Grimoires 2: Shard of Mystery

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Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box