head to head
vs
Donkey KongvsMarble It Up!
Donkey Kong leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Marble It Up! leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Donkey KongMarble It Up!
Axis by axis
Execution8 vs 9
Marble It Up! leans harder on execution: Frame-perfect marble control and boosting decide every run
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 1
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization6 vs 5
Donkey Kong leans harder on optimization: Stage patterns and score routes fully learnable
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.