head to head
vs
Comix ZonevsPac-Man Championship Edition DX
Comix Zone leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Pac-Man Championship Edition DX leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Comix ZonePac-Man Championship Edition DX
Axis by axis
Execution8 vs 8
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 1
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization5 vs 6
Pac-Man Championship Edition DX leans harder on optimization: Routing ghost trains for maximum score chains
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.