head to head
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Hot LavavsMega Man 2
Hot Lava leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Mega Man 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Hot LavaMega Man 2
Axis by axis
Execution8 vs 8
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance0 vs 1
Mega Man 2 leans harder on variance: deterministic once stage layouts known
Optimization5 vs 6
Mega Man 2 leans harder on optimization: weapon-weakness ordering is the classic solve
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.