head to head
vs
Castlevania III: Dracula's CursevsNeon White
Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Neon White leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Castlevania III: Dracula's CurseNeon White
Axis by axis
Execution9 vs 10
Neon White leans harder on execution: Card-discarding movement tech is the entire game at maximum precision
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 1
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization6 vs 6
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.