head to head
vs
Silent Hill 2vsThe Salma World
Silent Hill 2 leans Execution (Light / Casual); The Salma World leans Variance (Systems & Chaos).
Silent Hill 2The Salma World
Axis by axis
Execution3 vs 2
Silent Hill 2 leans harder on execution: clunky combat with modest execution demand
Reads1 vs 1
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance3 vs 4
The Salma World leans harder on variance: Wheels and random prompts drive much of the outcome
Optimization3 vs 3
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.