head to head
vs
Lovers in a Dangerous SpacetimevsMario Kart 8
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Mario Kart 8 leans Execution (Twitch Chaos).
Lovers in a Dangerous SpacetimeMario Kart 8
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 6
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads1 vs 1
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance4 vs 6
Mario Kart 8 leans harder on variance: item boxes are heavily randomized
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.