head to head
vs
Cars 2vsSayonara Wild Hearts
Cars 2 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Sayonara Wild Hearts leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Cars 2Sayonara Wild Hearts
Axis by axis
Execution5 vs 5
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 1
Cars 2 leans harder on variance: Weapon pickups inject kart-style randomness
Optimization2 vs 3
Sayonara Wild Hearts leans harder on optimization: Gold-rank score chasing rewards route learning
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.