head to head
vs
Mega Man X3vsSuper Mario Odyssey
Mega Man X3 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Super Mario Odyssey leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Mega Man X3Super Mario Odyssey
Axis by axis
Execution8 vs 8
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance0 vs 1
Super Mario Odyssey leans harder on variance: Almost no randomness in level design.
Optimization6 vs 5
Mega Man X3 leans harder on optimization: Weapon-order and upgrade routing is a known solved sequence
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.