head to head
Neither is harder. They score identically on all four axes, so the difference between them is in kind, not degree.

Execution · Practiced Mastery
A quirky sci-fi shooter mixing precise sniping with light puzzle-solving.

Execution · Practiced Mastery
Isometric movement control while herding Flickies along memorised routes.
MDK2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Sonic 3D Blast leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
MDK2
third-person shooting and sniping precision
Sonic 3D Blast
Isometric momentum control and Flicky herding need precise movement
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
MDK2
enemies use fixed AI scripts
Sonic 3D Blast
Robotnik bosses run fixed patterns
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
MDK2
minor enemy spawn randomness
Sonic 3D Blast
Flicky and badnik placements never change
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
MDK2
weapon and puzzle-sequence optimization
Sonic 3D Blast
Routing each zone for Flickies and emeralds is learnable
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.