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
A vertical-scrolling bullet-hell shooter with intense pattern-based combat.

Execution · Practiced Mastery
Co-op action take on Resident Evil trading dread for set-piece gunfights.
Azure Reflections leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Resident Evil 5 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Azure Reflections leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
Azure Reflections
bullet-hell dodging and precise shooting
Resident Evil 5
Action-heavy aiming and melee timing carry encounters
Resident Evil 5 leans a little harder on reads, though the gap is small.
Azure Reflections
fixed enemy patterns, scripted bosses
Resident Evil 5
Co-op coordination, not adversarial prediction
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Azure Reflections
minor randomness in enemy spawns
Resident Evil 5
Mostly fixed encounters after first run
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Azure Reflections
scoring and route optimization per stage
Resident Evil 5
Weapon upgrades and Mercenaries routing reward planning
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.