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Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas cover artvsSouth Park: The Stick of Truth cover art

Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted SeasvsSouth Park: The Stick of Truth

Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); South Park: The Stick of Truth leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted SeasSouth Park: The Stick of Truth

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 3

Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas leans harder on execution: Light action combat with forgiving timing

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 6

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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Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas

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South Park: The Stick of Truth