head to head
Rabi-Ribi asks more than Red Dead Redemption 2, and the gap is execution.

Execution · Practiced Mastery
Bullet-hell metroidvania whose bunny-girl bosses fill the screen with patterns.

Execution · Practiced Mastery
A cinematic open-world western leaning on shooting feel and atmosphere.
Rabi-Ribi leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Red Dead Redemption 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Rabi-Ribi leans clearly harder on execution.
Rabi-Ribi
Dense bullet-hell boss patterns demand precise dodging.
Red Dead Redemption 2
Gunplay and Dead Eye reward aim and timing.
Red Dead Redemption 2 leans a little harder on reads, though the gap is small.
Rabi-Ribi
Boss patterns are fixed and memorizable.
Red Dead Redemption 2
Enemies use scripted AI patterns, not adaptation.
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Rabi-Ribi
Exploration unknowns on first run.
Red Dead Redemption 2
Some hunting and weather randomness, lightly hidden.
Rabi-Ribi leans clearly harder on optimization.
Rabi-Ribi
Sequence-breaking routes and boss pattern study converge to mastery.
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.