head to head
vs
Lone Survivor: The Director's CutvsThe Last Guardian
Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); The Last Guardian leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).
Lone Survivor: The Director's CutThe Last Guardian
Axis by axis
Execution3 vs 2
Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut leans harder on execution: Some stealth-timing and resource-limited combat.
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance4 vs 3
Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut leans harder on variance: Scripted-but-unknown enemy encounters and item drops.
Optimization5 vs 5
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.