Building comparison
head to head
HobvsKatamari Damacy
Neither is harder. They score identically on all four axes, so the difference between them is in kind, not degree.
Hob
Optimization · Practiced Mastery
Wordless action-adventure where you rearrange a broken mechanical world.
Katamari Damacy
Optimization · Practiced Mastery
A surreal action game about rolling an ever-growing ball of everyday objects.
Hob leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Katamari Damacy leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
HobKatamari Damacy
Axis by axis
Execution4 vs 4
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Hob
Dodge-roll combat and platforming with moderate timing
Katamari Damacy
Dual-stick rolling control, forgiving but real
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Hob
Creatures attack on fixed patterns
Katamari Damacy
No opposition, just clutter
Variance1 vs 1
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Hob
World secrets unknown until uncovered
Katamari Damacy
Object layouts are fixed
Optimization6 vs 6
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Hob
World-transforming puzzles and upgrade routing carry the game
Katamari Damacy
Size-growth routing through each level
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.