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Psychonauts 2vsStealth Inc 2: A Game of Clones

Psychonauts 2 leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Stealth Inc 2: A Game of Clones leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 6

Stealth Inc 2: A Game of Clones leans harder on execution: Precise jumps and timing past lasers and robots

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 7

Stealth Inc 2: A Game of Clones leans harder on optimization: Each room is a solvable sequence to discover then execute

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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