head to head
vs
Alice: Madness ReturnsvsRiver City Girls
Alice: Madness Returns leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); River City Girls leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Alice: Madness ReturnsRiver City Girls
Axis by axis
Execution5 vs 6
River City Girls leans harder on execution: Combos, dodges, and juggle timing drive fights
Reads0 vs 1
River City Girls leans harder on reads: Enemy patterns are fixed and learnable
Variance1 vs 1
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
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.