Building comparison
head to head
Skate 2vsSuper Mario Odyssey
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is optimization, and it is a single point.
Skate 2
Execution · Pure Mechanics
A skateboarding sandbox where tricks come from analog stick flicks rather than button combos.
Super Mario Odyssey
Execution · Pure Mechanics
A 3D platformer whose joy lives in tight movement and capture-driven traversal.
Skate 2 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Super Mario Odyssey leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Skate 2Super Mario Odyssey
Axis by axis
Execution8 vs 8
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Skate 2
Flick-it stick controls map tricks to genuine manual dexterity
Super Mario Odyssey
Precise platforming and capture-move tech ceiling.
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Skate 2
Solo sandbox, no adaptive opposition
Super Mario Odyssey
No adaptive opponents whatsoever.
Variance1 vs 1
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Skate 2
Static city, deterministic physics
Super Mario Odyssey
Almost no randomness in level design.
Optimization4 vs 5
Super Mario Odyssey leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Skate 2
Spot selection and line planning improve scores
Super Mario Odyssey
Moon routes and movement tech learnable.
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.