head to head
vs
Summer Carnival '92: ReccavsThumper
Summer Carnival '92: Recca leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Thumper leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Summer Carnival '92: ReccaThumper
Axis by axis
Execution9 vs 9
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 1
Summer Carnival '92: Recca leans harder on variance: Patterns are fixed once learned
Optimization4 vs 4
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.