head to head
vs
Sonic Advance 3vsSpider-Man
Sonic Advance 3 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Spider-Man leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Sonic Advance 3Spider-Man
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 6
Sonic Advance 3 leans harder on execution: precise platforming speed and reaction timing
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 1
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization3 vs 4
Spider-Man leans harder on optimization: Boss patterns and level routes are fully learnable
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.