head to head
vs
Castlevania: Aria of SorrowvsTarisland
Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Tarisland leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
Castlevania: Aria of SorrowTarisland
Axis by axis
Execution4 vs 5
Tarisland leans harder on execution: Raid encounters require positional awareness and ability timing
Reads1 vs 2
Tarisland leans harder on reads: PvP battlefields present a real but secondary reads layer
Variance3 vs 3
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization7 vs 7
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.