head to head
vs
Mega Man Powered UpvsSuper Metroid
Mega Man Powered Up leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Super Metroid leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Mega Man Powered UpSuper Metroid
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 7
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance0 vs 1
Super Metroid leans harder on variance: Item and route knowledge is fixed once discovered
Optimization6 vs 7
Super Metroid leans harder on optimization: Sequence-breaking route optimisation is the enduring meta-game
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.