head to head
vs
BallancevsCrash Bandicoot
Ballance leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Crash Bandicoot leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
BallanceCrash Bandicoot
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 8
Crash Bandicoot leans harder on execution: Tight jumps on narrow paths punish slop
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance0 vs 1
Crash Bandicoot leans harder on variance: Everything scripted and placed
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.