Building comparison
head to head
Streets of RagevsSuper Castlevania IV
Neither is harder. They score identically on all four axes, so the difference between them is in kind, not degree.
Streets of Rage
Execution · Practiced Mastery
Crowd-control execution against memorised enemy patterns, stage by stage.
Super Castlevania IV
Execution · Practiced Mastery
Simon Belmont's SNES remake-quest with a multidirectional whip and a moody trek to Dracula.
Streets of Rage leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Super Castlevania IV leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Streets of RageSuper Castlevania IV
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 7
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Streets of Rage
Spacing, crowd control and throw timing carry every stage
Super Castlevania IV
Eight-way whip control and stair commitment test 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.
Streets of Rage
Enemy gangs attack from fixed arcade patterns
Super Castlevania IV
Classic scripted monster patterns
Variance1 vs 1
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Streets of Rage
Spawns are essentially deterministic per stage
Super Castlevania IV
Hidden wall meat, fixed locations
Optimization5 vs 5
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Streets of Rage
One-credit clears come from learned positioning and patterns
Super Castlevania IV
Subweapon choice and boss pattern study
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.