head to head
vs
Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective ClubvsKholat
Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Kholat leans Variance (Systems & Chaos).
Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective ClubKholat
Axis by axis
Execution0 vs 1
Kholat leans harder on execution: Walking the mountain takes no dexterity
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance4 vs 4
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization5 vs 4
Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club leans harder on optimization: Exhausting the right command order advances a fixed case.
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.