head to head
vs
Lonely Mountains: DownhillvsMetal Slug
Lonely Mountains: Downhill leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Metal Slug leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Lonely Mountains: DownhillMetal Slug
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 1
Lonely Mountains: Downhill leans harder on variance: Minimal RNG; courses are deterministic once learned
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.