head to head
Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary asks more than Red Dead Redemption 2, and the gap is reads.

Execution · Practiced Mastery
A competitive falling-blob puzzler about chaining combos faster than your opponent.

Execution · Practiced Mastery
A cinematic open-world western leaning on shooting feel and atmosphere.
Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Red Dead Redemption 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary leans clearly harder on execution.
Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary
Fast blob placement under pressure demands quick hands
Red Dead Redemption 2
Gunplay and Dead Eye reward aim and timing.
Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary leans clearly harder on reads.
Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary
Versus play rewards reading opponent chain timing and counters
Red Dead Redemption 2
Enemies use scripted AI patterns, not adaptation.
Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary leans clearly harder on variance.
Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary
Next-piece queue is random but bounded and visible
Red Dead Redemption 2
Some hunting and weather randomness, lightly hidden.
Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary leans clearly harder on optimization.
Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary
Building large chains is a learnable scoring system
Red Dead Redemption 2
Loadouts and routes solvable but loose.
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.