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The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition cover artvsThe Supper cover art

The Secret of Monkey Island: Special EditionvsThe Supper

The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); The Supper leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION0 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special EditionThe Supper

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Execution0 vs 1

The Supper leans harder on execution: Clicking through scenes requires nothing physical

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 5

The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition leans harder on optimization: Once solutions are known the game is fully solved

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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