head to head
vs
God of WarvsGuacamelee!: Gold Edition
God of War leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Guacamelee!: Gold Edition leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
God of WarGuacamelee!: Gold Edition
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 7
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 0
God of War leans harder on variance: Encounters are essentially deterministic
Optimization6 vs 5
God of War leans harder on optimization: Learning movesets, upgrades, and puzzles is the other half
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.