head to head
vs
Battle GareggavsContra III: The Alien Wars
Battle Garegga leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Contra III: The Alien Wars leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Battle GareggaContra III: The Alien Wars
Axis by axis
Execution9 vs 9
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 1
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization9 vs 6
Battle Garegga leans harder on optimization: Infamous rank-management system makes suicides and restraint deeply solvable strategy.
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.