head to head
vs
Rain on Your ParadevsSunflower Land
Rain on Your Parade leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Sunflower Land leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Rain on Your ParadeSunflower Land
Axis by axis
Execution2 vs 1
Rain on Your Parade leans harder on execution: Steering a cloud is deliberately easy
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 2
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization5 vs 5
Even - both lean on optimization about the same.
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.