head to head
Adventure Island IIvsSuper Mario 64
Adventure Island II leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Super Mario 64 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Adventure Island IISuper Mario 64
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 7
Super Mario 64 leans harder on execution: Perfect analog inputs trivialise precise jumps, dives and wall-kicks
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.

