head to head
vs
Crash Team Racing Nitro-FueledvsMario Kart DS
Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Mario Kart DS leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Crash Team Racing Nitro-FueledMario Kart DS
Axis by axis
Execution8 vs 8
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads2 vs 3
Mario Kart DS leans harder on reads: Online opponents punish predictable lines
Variance4 vs 4
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization6 vs 5
Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled leans harder on optimization: Track-specific boost chains and shortcut routes are fully memorisable
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.