head to head
vs
Alice: Madness ReturnsvsNo Straight Roads
Alice: Madness Returns leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); No Straight Roads leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Alice: Madness ReturnsNo Straight Roads
Axis by axis
Execution5 vs 6
No Straight Roads leans harder on execution: Dodging and attacking on the musical beat
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 1
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization5 vs 6
No Straight Roads leans harder on optimization: Learning each boss's beat-mapped moveset
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.