head to head
vs
Mad MaxvsNinety-Nine Nights
Mad Max leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Ninety-Nine Nights leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Mad MaxNinety-Nine Nights
Axis by axis
Execution4 vs 5
Ninety-Nine Nights leans harder on execution: Combo strings against thousand-unit hordes
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 1
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
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.