head to head
vs
Golden Axe IIvsIron Snout
Golden Axe II leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Iron Snout leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Golden Axe IIIron Snout
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 7
Iron Snout leans harder on execution: Rapid directional reactions to incoming wolves are everything
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 3
Iron Snout leans harder on variance: Random spawn order keeps each run slightly different
Optimization3 vs 3
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.