head to head
vs
Super Mario 64vsVigil: The Longest Night
Super Mario 64 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Vigil: The Longest Night leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Super Mario 64Vigil: The Longest Night
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 7
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads0 vs 1
Vigil: The Longest Night leans harder on reads: Eldritch bosses cycle fixed patterns, no adaptation
Variance1 vs 1
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization5 vs 6
Vigil: The Longest Night leans harder on optimization: Build choices and learned movesets carry the difficulty
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.