head to head
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is execution, and it is a single point.

Execution · Practiced Mastery
Gentle time-manipulation puzzles inside an authored emotional journey.

Optimization · Practiced Mastery
All six Star Wars films compiled into one forgiving LEGO action-adventure collection.
Arise: A Simple Story leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
Arise: A Simple Story leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
Arise: A Simple Story
Light platforming with forgiving time-control assists
LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
Simple combat and jumps, death barely punished
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Arise: A Simple Story
No opponent in this reflective journey
LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
Fixed enemy scripts, nothing models you
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Arise: A Simple Story
Scenes are fixed and authored
LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
Deterministic levels with known secrets
LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Arise: A Simple Story
Time-scrubbing puzzles each have one clean solution
LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
Completion routing, stud multipliers and unlock order
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.