Building comparison
head to head
Portal 2vsSuper Scribblenauts
Portal 2 asks more than Super Scribblenauts, and the gap is optimization.
Portal 2
Optimization · Pure Optimization
A first-person puzzle game where seeing the solution is the whole skill.
Super Scribblenauts
Optimization · Pure Optimization
Tests creative vocabulary - conjuring the right modified object for each fixed puzzle.
Portal 2 leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Super Scribblenauts leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Portal 2Super Scribblenauts
Axis by axis
Execution3 vs 2
Portal 2 leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
Portal 2
Portal placement requires some precision but timing is lenient.
Super Scribblenauts
Stylus control matters slightly, never decisively
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.
Super Scribblenauts
Solo sandbox - nothing models you
Variance0 vs 1
Super Scribblenauts leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Portal 2
Puzzles are deterministic with no randomness.
Super Scribblenauts
Puzzles are fixed; your vocabulary is the only variable
Optimization9 vs 6
Portal 2 leans clearly harder on optimization.
Portal 2
Solving the puzzle's logic IS the entire game.
Super Scribblenauts
Finding object-adjective combos that satisfy each puzzle is the game
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.