head to head
vs
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong QuestvsSonic CD
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Sonic CD leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong QuestSonic CD
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 6
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest leans harder on execution: Demanding jump chains and animal-buddy control
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
Sonic CD leans harder on optimization: Past-future routing for good endings is a planning problem
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.