head to head
vs
LEGO Star Wars: The Complete SagavsStick it to the Man!
LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Stick it to the Man! leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
LEGO Star Wars: The Complete SagaStick it to the Man!
Axis by axis
Execution3 vs 2
LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga leans harder on execution: Simple combat and jumps, death barely punished
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 1
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization5 vs 6
Stick it to the Man! leans harder on optimization: Matching stickers to puzzle locks is the core test
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.