head to head
Cool Boarders 2vsSonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut
Cool Boarders 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Cool Boarders 2Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 6
Cool Boarders 2 leans harder on execution: Manual rotation and landing alignment punish sloppy inputs
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 1
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization5 vs 4
Cool Boarders 2 leans harder on optimization: Board stats and trick scoring routes are mappable
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

