head to head
vs
Deepest SwordvsDuckTales: Remastered
Deepest Sword leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); DuckTales: Remastered leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Deepest SwordDuckTales: Remastered
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 6
Deepest Sword leans harder on execution: Wrestling an ever-longer sword through physics gaps is everything
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance0 vs 1
DuckTales: Remastered leans harder on variance: minimal randomness
Optimization3 vs 3
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.