head to head
vs
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical FreezevsStrider (2014)
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Strider (2014) leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical FreezeStrider (2014)
Axis by axis
Execution8 vs 7
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze leans harder on execution: Tight rolling and barrel-cannon timing
Reads1 vs 1
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 1
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization4 vs 5
Strider (2014) leans harder on optimization: Upgrade routing and boss pattern learning
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.