head to head
vs
Hotline MiamivsPac-Man Championship Edition
Hotline Miami leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Pac-Man Championship Edition leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Hotline MiamiPac-Man Championship Edition
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.
Variance2 vs 2
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization6 vs 7
Pac-Man Championship Edition leans harder on optimization: Optimal eating routes and ghost-train herding are deeply studyable
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.