head to head
vs
DOOM (2016)vsHyper Light Drifter
DOOM (2016) leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Hyper Light Drifter leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
DOOM (2016)Hyper Light Drifter
Axis by axis
Execution8 vs 7
DOOM (2016) leans harder on execution: Aim, movement, glory-kill timing all peak.
Reads1 vs 2
Hyper Light Drifter leans harder on reads: Scripted bosses with patterns
Variance1 vs 1
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization5 vs 5
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.