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No Case Should Remain Unsolved cover artvsThe Curse of Monkey Island cover art

No Case Should Remain UnsolvedvsThe Curse of Monkey Island

No Case Should Remain Unsolved leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); The Curse of Monkey Island leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION0 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE5 /10OPTIMIZATION8 /10
No Case Should Remain UnsolvedThe Curse of Monkey Island

Axis by axis

Execution0 vs 0

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance5 vs 3

No Case Should Remain Unsolved leans harder on variance: The truth is hidden information assembled piece by piece

Optimization8 vs 7

No Case Should Remain Unsolved leans harder on optimization: Cross-referencing fragments into a coherent timeline is the whole game

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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No Case Should Remain Unsolved

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The Curse of Monkey Island