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Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness - Episode One cover artvsThe Witcher cover art

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Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness - Episode One leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); The Witcher leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION3 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness - Episode OneThe Witcher

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Execution3 vs 3

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 0

Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness - Episode One leans harder on reads: Enemies are scripted, not adaptive opponents

Variance3 vs 2

Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness - Episode One leans harder on variance: Damage rolls and turn order add modest randomness

Optimization7 vs 7

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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