head to head
vs
Mega Man 5vsOut There Somewhere
Mega Man 5 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Out There Somewhere leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
Mega Man 5Out There Somewhere
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 6
Mega Man 5 leans harder on execution: Precise jumps and buster timing through gauntlet stages
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance0 vs 0
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization6 vs 7
Out There Somewhere leans harder on optimization: Seeing the teleport solution is the puzzle's real lock
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.