head to head
vs
RetrowavevsSayonara Wild Hearts
Retrowave leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Sayonara Wild Hearts leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
RetrowaveSayonara Wild Hearts
Axis by axis
Execution5 vs 5
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 1
Retrowave leans harder on variance: Traffic patterns vary run to run
Optimization2 vs 3
Sayonara Wild Hearts leans harder on optimization: Gold-rank score chasing rewards route learning
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.