head to head
vs
Super Meat BoyvsVVVVVV
Super Meat Boy leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); VVVVVV leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Super Meat BoyVVVVVV
Axis by axis
Execution10 vs 9
Super Meat Boy leans harder on execution: Pure twitch platforming, frame-perfect jumps
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 0
Super Meat Boy leans harder on variance: Fully deterministic levels
Optimization3 vs 3
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.