head to head
vs
Katana ZEROvsLovely Planet
Katana ZERO leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Lovely Planet leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Katana ZEROLovely Planet
Axis by axis
Execution8 vs 9
Lovely Planet leans harder on execution: Perfect aim mid-jump at full speed is the entire test
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 0
Katana ZERO leans harder on variance: Rooms are identical on every attempt
Optimization6 vs 6
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.