head to head
vs
Hollow KnightvsProject Gotham Racing 3
Hollow Knight leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Project Gotham Racing 3 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Hollow KnightProject Gotham Racing 3
Axis by axis
Execution8 vs 8
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads1 vs 2
Project Gotham Racing 3 leans harder on reads: Online rivals add light positional prediction, nothing adaptive deep
Variance1 vs 1
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization6 vs 5
Hollow Knight leans harder on optimization: Charm builds and boss routes are fully learnable.
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.