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The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the Schnibble cover artvsThe Curse of Monkey Island cover art

The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the SchnibblevsThe Curse of Monkey Island

The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the Schnibble leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); The Curse of Monkey Island leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the SchnibbleThe Curse of Monkey Island

Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 0

The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the Schnibble leans harder on execution: Clicking through scenes needs no dexterity

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 7

The Curse of Monkey Island leans harder on optimization: inventory logic puzzles are fully solvable

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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The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the Schnibble

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The Curse of Monkey Island