Building comparison
head to head
Lunar PoolvsStreets of Rage
Neither is harder. They score identically on all four axes, so the difference between them is in kind, not degree.
Lunar Pool
Execution · Practiced Mastery
Aiming precision and shot planning across sixty deterministic pool tables.
Streets of Rage
Execution · Practiced Mastery
Crowd-control execution against memorised enemy patterns, stage by stage.
Lunar Pool leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Streets of Rage leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Lunar PoolStreets of Rage
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 7
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Lunar Pool
Cue angle and power precision decide every pocketed ball
Streets of Rage
Spacing, crowd control and throw timing carry every stage
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Lunar Pool
Alternating-turn pool offers nothing to predict in an opponent
Streets of Rage
Enemy gangs attack from fixed arcade patterns
Variance1 vs 1
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Lunar Pool
Tables are fixed; physics are deterministic per friction setting
Streets of Rage
Spawns are essentially deterministic per stage
Optimization5 vs 5
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Lunar Pool
Planning shot order and leave across 60 tables rewards study
Streets of Rage
One-credit clears come from learned positioning and patterns
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.