Building comparison
head to head
Sayonara Wild HeartsvsSuper Mario Run
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is execution, and it is a single point.
Sayonara Wild Hearts
Execution · Practiced Mastery
A playable pop album blending rhythm, racing, and shooting into a forgiving stylish ride.
Super Mario Run
Execution · Practiced Mastery
One-thumb tap-timing precision over fixed courses with solvable coin routes.
Sayonara Wild Hearts leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Super Mario Run leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Sayonara Wild HeartsSuper Mario Run
Axis by axis
Execution5 vs 6
Super Mario Run leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
Sayonara Wild Hearts
Moderate dodging and timing, deliberately forgiving
Super Mario Run
One-handed tap timing for coin lines demands precision
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Sayonara Wild Hearts
Scripted pop-album set pieces
Super Mario Run
Auto-runner with no adaptive opponent; Toad Rally is asynchronous
Variance1 vs 1
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Sayonara Wild Hearts
Fixed levels with memorizable layouts
Super Mario Run
Courses are fixed and fully learnable
Optimization3 vs 4
Super Mario Run leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Sayonara Wild Hearts
Gold-rank score chasing rewards route learning
Super Mario Run
Routing perfect coin runs is a solvable layout puzzle
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.