Building comparison
head to head
Portal 2vsProfessor Layton and the Diabolical Box
Portal 2 asks more than Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box, and the gap is execution.
Portal 2
Optimization · Pure Optimization
A first-person puzzle game where seeing the solution is the whole skill.
Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box
Optimization · Pure Optimization
A long parade of self-contained logic puzzles wrapped in a mystery story.
Portal 2 leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Portal 2Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box
Axis by axis
Execution3 vs 0
Portal 2 leans clearly harder on execution.
Portal 2
Portal placement requires some precision but timing is lenient.
Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box
Stylus taps - zero dexterity demand
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Portal 2
No opponent; puzzles are static.
Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box
No opponent; a parade of standalone brainteasers
Variance0 vs 1
Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Portal 2
Puzzles are deterministic with no randomness.
Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box
Puzzles are fixed; only their first encounter surprises
Optimization9 vs 7
Portal 2 leans clearly harder on optimization.
Portal 2
Solving the puzzle's logic IS the entire game.
Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box
Each brainteaser has one clean logical solution to find
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.