head to head
vs
Bullet Heaven 2vsPainkiller (2004)
Bullet Heaven 2 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Painkiller (2004) leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Bullet Heaven 2Painkiller (2004)
Axis by axis
Execution9 vs 8
Bullet Heaven 2 leans harder on execution: Dodging dense bullet patterns is the whole game
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 2
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
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.