head to head
vs
Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About TimevsSummer Carnival '92: Recca
Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Summer Carnival '92: Recca leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About TimeSummer Carnival '92: Recca
Axis by axis
Execution8 vs 9
Summer Carnival '92: Recca leans harder on execution: Extreme bullet density makes dodging and aim everything
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 2
Summer Carnival '92: Recca leans harder on variance: Patterns are fixed once learned
Optimization4 vs 4
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.