Building comparison
head to head
Super Mario OdysseyvsTony Hawk's Pro Skater 5
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is optimization, and it is a single point.
Super Mario Odyssey
Execution · Pure Mechanics
A 3D platformer whose joy lives in tight movement and capture-driven traversal.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5
Execution · Pure Mechanics
A skateboarding game about chaining trick combos across stylized levels.
Super Mario Odyssey leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Super Mario OdysseyTony Hawk's Pro Skater 5
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.
Super Mario Odyssey
Precise platforming and capture-move tech ceiling.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5
trick-combo timing and balance execution
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Super Mario Odyssey
No adaptive opponents whatsoever.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5
no adversarial adapting opponent
Variance1 vs 1
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Super Mario Odyssey
Almost no randomness in level design.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5
minimal randomness
Optimization5 vs 4
Super Mario Odyssey leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Super Mario Odyssey
Moon routes and movement tech learnable.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5
combo-route and score-tech optimization
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.