Building comparison
head to head
Final FightvsZombies Ate My Neighbors
Neither is harder. They score identically on all four axes, so the difference between them is in kind, not degree.
Final Fight
Execution · Practiced Mastery
Arcade beat-em-up classic about brawling through Metro City's gangs.
Zombies Ate My Neighbors
Execution · Practiced Mastery
A campy 16-bit run-and-gun about rescuing neighbors from B-movie monsters.
Final Fight leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Zombies Ate My Neighbors leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Final FightZombies Ate My Neighbors
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 6
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Final Fight
Crowd-control timing and throw spacing
Zombies Ate My Neighbors
Dodging monsters while sniping with squirt guns
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Final Fight
Thugs spawn and attack on scripts
Zombies Ate My Neighbors
Monster movie AI is fully patterned
Variance2 vs 2
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Final Fight
Minor enemy placement randomness
Zombies Ate My Neighbors
Victim placement varies slightly per level
Optimization5 vs 5
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Final Fight
Memorising waves and damage-efficient patterns
Zombies Ate My Neighbors
Weapon-versus-monster matchups and level routing
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.