head to head
vs
Shadow Warrior 3vsSuper Mario Odyssey
Shadow Warrior 3 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Super Mario Odyssey leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Shadow Warrior 3Super Mario Odyssey
Axis by axis
Execution9 vs 8
Shadow Warrior 3 leans harder on execution: Grapple, wall-run, and finisher chains demand peak motor coordination
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 1
Shadow Warrior 3 leans harder on variance: Level encounters are consistent and fully learnable
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.