head to head
vs
Adventure Island IIvsAlice: Madness Returns
Adventure Island II leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Alice: Madness Returns leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Adventure Island IIAlice: Madness Returns
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 5
Adventure Island II leans harder on execution: Momentum-heavy jumps and constant hunger timer pressure
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 1
Adventure Island II leans harder on variance: Egg contents and dinosaur drops add light randomness
Optimization5 vs 5
Even - both lean on optimization about the same.
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.