Building comparison
head to head
AladdinvsPac-Attack
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is variance, and it is a single point.
Aladdin
Execution · Pure Mechanics
A classic side-scrolling platformer following Aladdin through Agrabah and beyond.
Pac-Attack
Execution · Practiced Mastery
Falling-block stacking under speed pressure with a twist of directional randomness.
Aladdin leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Pac-Attack leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
AladdinPac-Attack
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 7
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Aladdin
Precise platforming jumps and sword-timing are demanding.
Pac-Attack
Placing pieces under rising speed and gravity decides survival
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Aladdin
No adaptive opponent, fixed enemy patterns.
Pac-Attack
Solo stacking - no opponent modelling
Variance2 vs 3
Pac-Attack leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Aladdin
Some randomness in enemy placement and drops.
Pac-Attack
Pac-Man's random direction choice adds placement uncertainty
Optimization4 vs 5
Pac-Attack leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Aladdin
Level routes are learnable but execution dominates.
Pac-Attack
Stack shapes that feed Pac-Man efficiently are learnable patterns
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.