head to head
Fat Princess asks more than Brütal Legend, and the gap is reads.

Optimization · Practiced Mastery
Tim Schafer's heavy-metal open world that morphs into RTS-style stage battles.

Optimization · Mind & Math
Team objective tug-of-war testing class economy and reading the other team's pushes.
Brütal Legend leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Fat Princess leans Optimization (Mind & Math).
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Brütal Legend
Hack-and-slash combat is forgiving
Fat Princess
Simple hack-and-slash actions per class
Fat Princess leans clearly harder on reads.
Brütal Legend
Multiplayer stage battles pit you against adapting commanders
Fat Princess
Predicting enemy team pushes and rescues is constant
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Brütal Legend
Unit skirmish chaos adds noise
Fat Princess
Minor spawn and map noise
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Brütal Legend
Stage-battle economy and unit counters reward strategy
Fat Princess
Class economy, cake feeding and upgrade timing win matches
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.