head to head
vs
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!vsTony Hawk's American Sk8land
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Tony Hawk's American Sk8land leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!Tony Hawk's American Sk8land
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.
Variance1 vs 0
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! leans harder on variance: Almost fully deterministic once patterns are known
Optimization7 vs 6
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! leans harder on optimization: Memorizing each opponent's pattern is half the 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.