Building comparison
head to head
Sally FacevsThe Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is execution, and it is a single point.
Sally Face
Optimization · Systems & Chaos
Piecing together a dark mystery through light fixed puzzles.
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
Optimization · Pure Optimization
Lateral-thinking puzzle solving that converges to a walkthrough once solutions are known.
Sally Face leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Sally FaceThe Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
Axis by axis
Execution1 vs 0
Sally Face leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
Sally Face
Walking and clicking with no dexterity demands
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
Pointing and clicking has no physical ceiling
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Sally Face
Story characters follow a fixed script
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
Insult swordfighting is scripted dialogue lookup, not prediction
Variance3 vs 3
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Sally Face
Mystery beats are hidden information until revealed
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
Puzzle solutions are hidden information until discovered
Optimization5 vs 6
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Sally Face
Light puzzle logic and clue-piecing is the only system
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
Once solutions are known the game is fully solved
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.