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Nintendogs + Cats: French Bulldog & New Friends cover artvsThe Stanley Parable cover art

Nintendogs + Cats: French Bulldog & New FriendsvsThe Stanley Parable

Nintendogs + Cats: French Bulldog & New Friends leans Variance (Light / Casual); The Stanley Parable leans Variance (Light / Casual).

EXECUTION1 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION2 /10
Nintendogs + Cats: French Bulldog & New FriendsThe Stanley Parable

Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 0

Nintendogs + Cats: French Bulldog & New Friends leans harder on execution: Petting and gestures require no precision

Reads1 vs 0

Nintendogs + Cats: French Bulldog & New Friends leans harder on reads: Pets react cutely, not adaptively to strategy

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization2 vs 2

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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Nintendogs + Cats: French Bulldog & New Friends

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The Stanley Parable