Building comparison
head to head
198XvsA Story About My Uncle
Neither is harder. They score identically on all four axes, so the difference between them is in kind, not degree.
198X
Execution · Practiced Mastery
A coming-of-age story told through five playable homages to classic arcade genres.
A Story About My Uncle
Execution · Practiced Mastery
A non-violent platformer testing grappling-swing timing through fixed first-person courses.
198X leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); A Story About My Uncle leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
198XA Story About My Uncle
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 6
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
198X
Each arcade vignette tests reflexes in a different genre
A Story About My Uncle
Grappling-hook swings demand momentum timing and aim
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
198X
All segments are scripted
A Story About My Uncle
No opponents exist at all
Variance1 vs 1
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
198X
Fixed sequences once seen
A Story About My Uncle
Course layouts are fixed and visible
Optimization4 vs 4
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
198X
Learning each minigame's patterns
A Story About My Uncle
Finding efficient swing lines through each cavern
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.