head to head
vs
God of War (2005)vsWe Love Katamari
God of War (2005) leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); We Love Katamari leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
God of War (2005)We Love Katamari
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 5
God of War (2005) leans harder on execution: Blade combos, parries, and QTEs reward clean inputs
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 1
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization6 vs 7
We Love Katamari leans harder on optimization: Size-growth routing is the score-attack core.
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.