head to head
vs
Nier: AutomatavsPac-Man Championship Edition
Nier: Automata leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Pac-Man Championship Edition leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Nier: AutomataPac-Man Championship Edition
Axis by axis
Execution8 vs 8
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads1 vs 0
Nier: Automata leans harder on reads: Enemies follow scripted patterns; no adaptive opponent
Variance2 vs 2
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization6 vs 7
Pac-Man Championship Edition leans harder on optimization: Optimal eating routes and ghost-train herding are deeply studyable
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.